I wish my wife was as dirty as this

Alternate title: "I thought this was bowling for weirdos."

Did the Muppet Personality Test too. It came out surprisingly accurate.

Man o man, been pure ages since the last posting, I mean... I did post but it's this damn Internet, it took so bloody long for it to be sent! Nightmare.

What's been going? If you're reading this then you already know. In case you want more Mond! Mond! MOND...! Yes please. Always!

I looked back at the last couple of posts to get an idea of the void of MondNews.com to tell. Here goeeessss.....!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I got a Ford Fiesta Zetec that has three "doors", a 1.4 litre engine and is in Panther Black. However, it doesn't make me feel like a large black cat :( It's nice having a car. Though the novelty of driving soon left.

The course is going well. I'm in my third term with two sets of exams behind me. Only two courses this term, which is only five weeks long opposed to ten weeks for the last two.

Interesting things that has happened at the ISLI
After a rebranding it's now called iSLI following the fashion of our times by putting small case vowels as the first letter, aka iGayDos (not as in Disk Operating System but as in The Gays - I know it doesn't make sense, but I find it funny so suck it). The website has been updated to reflect this and has a new logo, which is very horrible as it looks amateurish. Apparently the change happened because it was too expensive to print the gold colour of the letters in the previous logo - what about just using YELLOW guys? Also in the rumour mill - well some person that works there told me at a group All You Can Eat Chinese Outing and I've been told not to tell people this, so lets broadcast it over The Internet - is that the logo was designed by the sibling of a ISLI employee. It shows.

At one of the very first lectures, a lecturer did some pointless poll of students via hand raising and one of the questions he asked was "What kind of people do we have? .... Computing people? Electronics people? Librarians?", snigger from the class then an Asian guy audibly says "Africans".


Silence :(


The lecturer, astonished, says "What?" but he knew fine well what. Thankfully, the Asian guy repeated what he had said just to make sure those half asleep knew. Looks like Mr Asian and Mr African are now best buds so everything is A OK. Phew, racism solved!

Other Things
Walking out of Hillhead subway station, I had to cut though some Scottish Socialist Party promotion and noticed that a Big Issue seller asked one of the SSPers if he wanted to buy a magazine which the promoter declined while handing out "help the working people" flyers.

On my way to Livingston, while driving though Airdrie there is a great sign that has a yellow background with black square and black arrow pointing right. Anyone? My best guess is there is a giant black square from some exotic land on display on the main street, sort of like King Kong in New York.

Also on my driving travels I saw this phrase on the back of a "Traditional Builders" white van: "I wish my wife was as dirty as this". Made my day. I'm sure this is not a new one but I don't hang around cars at night much.

My free laptop from the ISLI was hopefully ordered this week so it should be here soon. It's a Sony Vaio SZ1 XP. Shiny and sexy! Had to get the extended 2 year warrenty and I threw in a case for it too. As long as the total order was under £1500 excluding VAT "it's ok"(tm).

Holiday
Mariken and I have booked up holidays for the start of June. We will spend one week in an apartment in Tarragona, Spain, which is just below Barcelona and was the Roman capital of Spain so there will be plenty of "old stuff" to see. Then we'll get the train to Barcelona and spend a week there. Both places are private apartments that have worked out much cheaper than hotels. Flying into Reus with Ryanair works out quite cheap too, although we left it a couple of days and the prices doubled :( Still only £24 return but with taxes this comes to £50. The apartment in Barca is near the Sagrada Familia which according to my extensive knowledge of the area is the drugged up religious creation of Gaudi. Yeah.

I have my last exam on the 2nd of June then we go on holiday the next day until to the 17th. I then have one week for moving as I start at ARM in Cambridge on the 26th.

Moving
I'm looking forward to starting with ARM away down there but it's getting a little scary due to moving away from everyone I know and trying to get a nice place to stay. Have been thinking about buying somewhere as my Dad and I talked to the bank and my parents can go guarantor on a mortgage as I would not be able to get a decent one. However, Cambridge is very expensive so I might have to stay further out, which I don't really want to do as the road congestion is very bad (plus they have congestion charging) and I would like to cycle to work.

If I want to rent a one bedroom flat for myself I have set a limit of £700 per month. I have seen a few nice places but it's a lot of money. Might share for a wee while then think about moving to a place of my own (either renting or buying).

That's it, guyz.

Byeeeeee!

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mond