What-u mates.
I must confess that that week was the drunkest week I ever had. In fact for the whole week I was drunk half the time. It's not that I have a problem with alcohol, it was just a question of being in the right place at the right moment (I know the sentence is not right, but I changed it for my own purpose). I found really nice going to a Pub to enjoy my book with a couple of pints, in fact I loved that moments. If you have the whole day free, if you don't have anything to do or go afer 5pm and you need to spend some time doing something nice, reading on a Pub with a pint of nice Ale (or lager) and beside the chimney (or however it has to be written) it's one of the most wonderful things in life. I really love and miss that moments. But after 3 hours being on the Pub, waiting to meet somebody or just going home meant to be drunk. You can't stay on a Pub for 3 hours without drinking 2 or 3 pints, I believe it would be cheeky to do the opposite. So I did.
The problem always was when I went home, or met the people whom I had to see, there was always a chance to get drunker. My flatmates brought more beer, or I had something to do with Alice that finally envolved drinking (like the raffle thing). Or there was just kind of a party at Alice's house with her parents, or just meet her father, brother, brother's fionce when arriving at home at the local pub. I don't want to blame Alice, but mostly it was her fault, except for the previous book beers.
So next day, the day after the raffle event, I spent the day at London. This time I promised Alice I'll help her with another fund rising event, tihs time a conference or something like that (that kind of events had a name, but as always I fogot) at the Marie Curie Hospital. I went before the event to help them (Alice and the girls at the raffle) to move chairs, furniture, machines and leave everything prepared for the event. I did help them, but I couldn't stay for the conference, I don't really know why. They had speakers, and I believe they talked about some organization or part of an organization that goes to high mountains on south america, I'll ask Alice and I'll explain it to you later. The bad thing is that the conferences seemed to be really interesting, with loads of exciting stories from the speakers, and I feel really jealous about Alice being there and not me.
Anyway, I had to meet them at the hospital later, 4 or 5 hours later. So I went for a walk on the area, wich was close to Camdem Town. They adviced me to go to Camdem Market, but you know I love to be lost and so I did. The fact is I couldn't find Camdem Market, but I had a nice walk. But I still had a lot of free time and nothing to do. Guess what I did; yes I went to the Pub to drink and read. So when the time came I was again partially drunk. I went back to the hospital and help them to put the stuff back on their original place. And after that, and talk for a bit with the girls, Alice, myself and Alice's boss (Andy?) left the place on a car. We went to Marie Curie Office at Vauxhall. The building is very posch and seems to be expensive. So I asked Andy? how it was that they had the office there, you know when you have a funding organization expending a lot on an office seems to be a nonsense. He told me the building was crap, badly made and even ill, so the owners had planned to pull it down and rebuild a new one. So the rent is very cheap, and a lot of fundings have their offices there. I wander what'll happen when they finally pull the building down.
After that Alice and I had to go to an Alice's house for a birthday party and so we did. We reach the house and met her friends. I talked with them while Alice was changing her clothes for going out, and drunk white wine. Then we left the house and went to a Pub to drink more. There's not a lot of interesting things that happened on the Pub. I was really really tired, so I was a bit silent, and that's really strange on me, you know. So I'll just tell you the interesting bits of the night.
Some French friends of Alice's birthday girl came to meet us on the Pub. I was telling Alice that everybody hates French guys, and also that I do hate Frenchs (actually it's not true, it's just part of the topic that everybody hate French people). So it happend again the same as the night before. I was told the girl speaked fluent Spanish. And after hearing that, just before telling Alice about the world and myself hating Frenchs, that I made my way to talk to the girl on my own language. I know it did surprise Alice again, how I can change my mind and even forget about pain when there's a nice lady that can speak spanish. I promise I was joking about the hating, I do not know enough French people to have an oppinion about them. So I talked with the girl, and in fact I talked a lot. It was a bit strange for me because she had a south spanish accent, I mean from Andalucia. So I was speaking with a French girl with an Andalucian accent, and I couldn't notice a strong French accent at all, it might had been I was drunk. She was really nice I say, but her boyfriend was beside her. She liked to speak with me because her English wasn't as good as her Spanish, her boyfriend translated almost everything in fact.
After a while, and as a result of me being tired I talked to Alice, who noticed my tireness, and I told her if there was any possibility to go to her friend's house and sleep. She told me she was also tired and so we went out the Pub to talk about that. But she was hungry, and I was also and we went to a fried chicken place next to the Pub and asked for some chicken. Then this big black guy came and asked for chicken. When he was going to pay some coins falled from his hand. I quickly move my hand to pick them from the floor and gave them to the guy. He was really surprised about that, like nobody ever had done something like that for him. He told me I was a gentleman and that Alice was lucky. It made me feel really well, but at the same time made me think about English people not doing what I did. The guy was really happy with what I did and he was smiling all the time. I was also happy and his smile and happy face were a very nice thing. So we left the place, eat our chicken and finally went home to sleep.
I slept on the sofa and she slept on the ground with a sleeping bag. It wasn't my choice, don't believe I'm a bloody nasty guy who doesn't care about other people sleeping on the ground. She insisted it was worst to sleep on the sofa. But it seemed the sofa wasn't the appropiate place to sleep. At 3am the other people, the house owners and some others came back home to sleep. We had to leave the lounge and went to sleep on a proper bed. That sounds really nice, but it wasn't really a whole bed. I could consider myself as lucky that night 'cause I slept with two Ladies. But I must say I sleep with Alice's feet beside my face and I didn't sleep in the middle of the bed, so I wasn't surrounded by women. Fortunatly Alice's feet didn't snorl or smell.
I hope I won't have any alcohol problems in the future.
Manoel.
PS: Thanks Alice for so many really nice moments.
Tuesday, November 16, 2004
Thursday, November 11, 2004
The continuous story of the raffle night
Hullo mate.
I was becoming an English, so I guess I should speak like one of them.
I must continue with the raffle night. I think I left it with a couple, well more than a couple, of champagne glasses. At that time I was partially drunk and, on my own believings, being quite funny. So finally we left the place. We had to walk, but not much, but on our state we decided, they decided, to catch a cub. So I could enjoy a London cab. the inside was big, really big, and comfortable, with loads of space on the back seats. In fact there was enough space for 5 people and the seats were distributed like 3 on the back and 2 on the front, like a table. The cab driver was good, he didn´t talk that much, compared with Spanish taxi drivers, I mean, and he seem to know were he was going, compared with Spanish taxi drivers, I mean again.
So we went on the cab to another raffle, but this time it wasn't our. It was kind of a country party, I mean country music party, on a disco. Those kind of parties have a name, Alice told me but I just forgot, I'm sorry. There was a band playing country music, and people dressed with american cowboy hats and jeans. We drunk more beer and danced. It was really funny, happy and interesting.
Problems started when the band decided to play Anarchy in the UK on a country style. That anoyyed me a bit, I'm really sorry, and I was also drunk. So I decided not to dance and show my dissapointing. I just considered it ridiculous. How can you be an anarchyst playing country music? I guess Sex Pistols would be angry on their graves if they were dead (that's something I'm not sure about, but I guess they are). But people seemed to enjoy it. I told my friends (my raffle mates) about I was a bit pistoff, and they told me not to worry that much (well, I wasn't really annoyed, I was smiling) and that it's like being an anarchyst playing that song on a country style, I still don't believe it.
They finished playing, and they asked if everybody liked it, I said NO on a loud voice with so such bad luck that when I said it everybody was silent, so I was completly heard. I was a bit ashamed, as I was only joking. But nobody was neither angry nor screaming at the Spanish bastard. In fact, I guess nobody realized about what I did, they were drunk also. So the party was over (and not because of me) and we left the place.
There we were walking for a while on the streets on our ways to the different transports we chose for our back trips. I was a bit tired and also walking behind them, they were walking quite fast and I spent the whole day walking, dancing and drinking. There was a traffic sign and I tried to avoid it with the misfortune that something else was on my way. It was kind of a metal and sharp thing in the middle of the street and my right leg found it, exactly on the corner of it. So the pain was considerable high, and I had to stop just to scratch my leg and try not to think about the pain. Alice knows I have problems with my knees, so after she saw me she thought I was having pain on them and I wasn't able to walk properly, and she told the other girls and they came to help me or at least to feel a bit of sorrow for me. Unfortunatly at the precise time they decided to do it I heard two girl voices speaking in Spanish. I was so happy and drunk that I forgot about my pain and jumped and ran to say hello to the girls. The other girls saw it and they forgot about my knees. They weren't dissapointed, they just laughed and thought that it was another joke I made, or at least that's what they said. But I could noticed they were pistoff, not much. I wasn't really lucky as I missed the Spanish girls and also made the others feel disspointed.
We went home, but at that time going home meant to catch a train from Waterloo to Tonbridge, 45 minutes more or less. So Alice and I did, the other girls catched different trains or just went home on a cab (they were only two girls). Alice talks as much as I do, what is really nice and you don't get bored. The problem is I really talk a lot, in fact I never stop talking, but it's always interesting, believe me. We went on the train and there were two seats available. One of them was just empty, but the other was occupied by a slept girl and Alice didn't dare to awake her to ask for the seat. She asked it for me. So I was sitting beside the sleepy and a bit angry girl. And we talked, and talked, and talked. My voice was quite low, but Alice's was a bit louder than me. After 20 minutes, more or less (don't expect me to remember my life completely) I said "I think I was quite funny today", and actually I really believe I was. The sleeping girl said "No, you're not" and I could guess on her tone that she was really angry. I said something but I don't remember what, I guess it was "fuck off, I wasn't speaking with you". After the next stop, the person in front of Alice left the train leaving a seat beside one big boy. So the girl went there, with the boy, and she also hug him. I guess he was her boyfriend, and we (Alice and I) also guessed she was angry with him, that's why she was in such a bad mood. She could have been seating in front of him if she wanted. When we reached the train there were two seats, and one of them was beside the girl. I just wander why she wasn't seated beside her lover, and we just could bet they had an argument.
She stopped at the same station as us. And I did what I always do, and it's being a gentleman letting her leave the train before me, she said "thanks".
The point is Alice was talking louder than me, and also even more than me. Why the girl made that horrible comentary about me being funny? was it because she hated men at that precise moment? or it was just because I was closer to her and I said the unappropiate thing?
The fact is that it was a really interesting night, I promise. Thanks Alice.
See you all soon, there's more things to tell you and so many few time...
Manoel.
I was becoming an English, so I guess I should speak like one of them.
I must continue with the raffle night. I think I left it with a couple, well more than a couple, of champagne glasses. At that time I was partially drunk and, on my own believings, being quite funny. So finally we left the place. We had to walk, but not much, but on our state we decided, they decided, to catch a cub. So I could enjoy a London cab. the inside was big, really big, and comfortable, with loads of space on the back seats. In fact there was enough space for 5 people and the seats were distributed like 3 on the back and 2 on the front, like a table. The cab driver was good, he didn´t talk that much, compared with Spanish taxi drivers, I mean, and he seem to know were he was going, compared with Spanish taxi drivers, I mean again.
So we went on the cab to another raffle, but this time it wasn't our. It was kind of a country party, I mean country music party, on a disco. Those kind of parties have a name, Alice told me but I just forgot, I'm sorry. There was a band playing country music, and people dressed with american cowboy hats and jeans. We drunk more beer and danced. It was really funny, happy and interesting.
Problems started when the band decided to play Anarchy in the UK on a country style. That anoyyed me a bit, I'm really sorry, and I was also drunk. So I decided not to dance and show my dissapointing. I just considered it ridiculous. How can you be an anarchyst playing country music? I guess Sex Pistols would be angry on their graves if they were dead (that's something I'm not sure about, but I guess they are). But people seemed to enjoy it. I told my friends (my raffle mates) about I was a bit pistoff, and they told me not to worry that much (well, I wasn't really annoyed, I was smiling) and that it's like being an anarchyst playing that song on a country style, I still don't believe it.
They finished playing, and they asked if everybody liked it, I said NO on a loud voice with so such bad luck that when I said it everybody was silent, so I was completly heard. I was a bit ashamed, as I was only joking. But nobody was neither angry nor screaming at the Spanish bastard. In fact, I guess nobody realized about what I did, they were drunk also. So the party was over (and not because of me) and we left the place.
There we were walking for a while on the streets on our ways to the different transports we chose for our back trips. I was a bit tired and also walking behind them, they were walking quite fast and I spent the whole day walking, dancing and drinking. There was a traffic sign and I tried to avoid it with the misfortune that something else was on my way. It was kind of a metal and sharp thing in the middle of the street and my right leg found it, exactly on the corner of it. So the pain was considerable high, and I had to stop just to scratch my leg and try not to think about the pain. Alice knows I have problems with my knees, so after she saw me she thought I was having pain on them and I wasn't able to walk properly, and she told the other girls and they came to help me or at least to feel a bit of sorrow for me. Unfortunatly at the precise time they decided to do it I heard two girl voices speaking in Spanish. I was so happy and drunk that I forgot about my pain and jumped and ran to say hello to the girls. The other girls saw it and they forgot about my knees. They weren't dissapointed, they just laughed and thought that it was another joke I made, or at least that's what they said. But I could noticed they were pistoff, not much. I wasn't really lucky as I missed the Spanish girls and also made the others feel disspointed.
We went home, but at that time going home meant to catch a train from Waterloo to Tonbridge, 45 minutes more or less. So Alice and I did, the other girls catched different trains or just went home on a cab (they were only two girls). Alice talks as much as I do, what is really nice and you don't get bored. The problem is I really talk a lot, in fact I never stop talking, but it's always interesting, believe me. We went on the train and there were two seats available. One of them was just empty, but the other was occupied by a slept girl and Alice didn't dare to awake her to ask for the seat. She asked it for me. So I was sitting beside the sleepy and a bit angry girl. And we talked, and talked, and talked. My voice was quite low, but Alice's was a bit louder than me. After 20 minutes, more or less (don't expect me to remember my life completely) I said "I think I was quite funny today", and actually I really believe I was. The sleeping girl said "No, you're not" and I could guess on her tone that she was really angry. I said something but I don't remember what, I guess it was "fuck off, I wasn't speaking with you". After the next stop, the person in front of Alice left the train leaving a seat beside one big boy. So the girl went there, with the boy, and she also hug him. I guess he was her boyfriend, and we (Alice and I) also guessed she was angry with him, that's why she was in such a bad mood. She could have been seating in front of him if she wanted. When we reached the train there were two seats, and one of them was beside the girl. I just wander why she wasn't seated beside her lover, and we just could bet they had an argument.
She stopped at the same station as us. And I did what I always do, and it's being a gentleman letting her leave the train before me, she said "thanks".
The point is Alice was talking louder than me, and also even more than me. Why the girl made that horrible comentary about me being funny? was it because she hated men at that precise moment? or it was just because I was closer to her and I said the unappropiate thing?
The fact is that it was a really interesting night, I promise. Thanks Alice.
See you all soon, there's more things to tell you and so many few time...
Manoel.
Wednesday, November 10, 2004
Apologizing
Hi there.
I'm really sorry but I couldn't write these days. The reason was I didn't have an opportunity to use a computer with an internet connection and also I even wasn't at London all the time.
Now I'm too tired to write a lot but I'll do it this week. There's so many things I want to say that I'm sure I'll write many posts.
But I just wanted to tell you fellow readers that soon I'll be here again. But unfortunatly I have bad news for you.
I'll just leave you with the doubt as sometimes I like a bit of mistery.
See you soon.
Manoel.
I'm really sorry but I couldn't write these days. The reason was I didn't have an opportunity to use a computer with an internet connection and also I even wasn't at London all the time.
Now I'm too tired to write a lot but I'll do it this week. There's so many things I want to say that I'm sure I'll write many posts.
But I just wanted to tell you fellow readers that soon I'll be here again. But unfortunatly I have bad news for you.
I'll just leave you with the doubt as sometimes I like a bit of mistery.
See you soon.
Manoel.
Wednesday, November 03, 2004
Some events
Hi everybody.
The last week I attend some really interesting events. As a matter of fact I spent half the last week being drunk. I'm living for these week and part of the last one with a friend of Faye (and now also mine) in Shipbourn, Kent. I go to London almost everyday from there, what is a 45 minutes Train trip. Thanks to that I don't have to spend my days in the last corner of the world surrounded by birds, green grass and trees, and nothing else. And also I have nothing else, so I'm pleased being there (well if the things went wrong I could go again to Chesire, wich I'd really like in some ways, not for the cows, of course).
Anyway, the fact is that last week I had to wait for hours before I could meet the girl to go back to her house. That meant I had to spend some time reading my book at the first pub I could find. Normally it was 2 or 3 hours. It was a fantastic time, but for not feeling guilty I bought some pints. So I spent that time reading and drinking. When the time to meet her came I was quite drunk all those days, I mean not really drunk, just happy enough. The problem was on thursday and friday that later I had to go to some events.
The first one was a raffle. My friend Alice works for charity (but being paid). Her job is organizing events to get money. I would say she's a begger, but it's not exactly true, she's more polite and the money is not for herself. The event was in the reopening of a very posch bar/restaurant called Brown's. I was amazed because it was really posch and because I saw some nice girls there also. I was really happy, and mostly because of the beer. As I had nothing else to do I decided to go to the event with her and help. I didn't expect Champagne coming all the time as we sold the tickets for the raffle, but it did come. So the fact is that while I was selling the tickets with my friend I was falling slowly in a really good drunken state. We sold a lot, anyway, we were very succesful. They also gave us really nice food, so you can imagine how happy I was.
But as all you know I'm a very good observer. So the raffle in the posch place gave me an opportunity to look closely to posch people. The first thing I realized is they weren't that posch. I mean they were richer than us, but only small executive type. I could see those ugly guys with really pretty girls, that's the power of love.
Selling things to rich people, specially for charity, is a really good thing if you want to see how mean they are. The poorest the generous, the richest the mean. But that's not exactly true. If they were with their pretty tall blondies they gave more money (one of them gave 20£), but if they were alone they only give the minimun. They were very generous, all of them, even the meaniest. I wander if I had done the same thing in Spain we'd colect the same amount.
The prizes were really good, and also the price of the raffle, so we were really succesful, and drunk, and happy. Everybody was happy, specially the guy that won the 1st prize, a nice guy, he really deserved it.
Later that night more things happend, funny things, well, just two, but I'll leave them for the next post as my money runs out on the cyber.
Cheers. See you soon.
Manoel.
The last week I attend some really interesting events. As a matter of fact I spent half the last week being drunk. I'm living for these week and part of the last one with a friend of Faye (and now also mine) in Shipbourn, Kent. I go to London almost everyday from there, what is a 45 minutes Train trip. Thanks to that I don't have to spend my days in the last corner of the world surrounded by birds, green grass and trees, and nothing else. And also I have nothing else, so I'm pleased being there (well if the things went wrong I could go again to Chesire, wich I'd really like in some ways, not for the cows, of course).
Anyway, the fact is that last week I had to wait for hours before I could meet the girl to go back to her house. That meant I had to spend some time reading my book at the first pub I could find. Normally it was 2 or 3 hours. It was a fantastic time, but for not feeling guilty I bought some pints. So I spent that time reading and drinking. When the time to meet her came I was quite drunk all those days, I mean not really drunk, just happy enough. The problem was on thursday and friday that later I had to go to some events.
The first one was a raffle. My friend Alice works for charity (but being paid). Her job is organizing events to get money. I would say she's a begger, but it's not exactly true, she's more polite and the money is not for herself. The event was in the reopening of a very posch bar/restaurant called Brown's. I was amazed because it was really posch and because I saw some nice girls there also. I was really happy, and mostly because of the beer. As I had nothing else to do I decided to go to the event with her and help. I didn't expect Champagne coming all the time as we sold the tickets for the raffle, but it did come. So the fact is that while I was selling the tickets with my friend I was falling slowly in a really good drunken state. We sold a lot, anyway, we were very succesful. They also gave us really nice food, so you can imagine how happy I was.
But as all you know I'm a very good observer. So the raffle in the posch place gave me an opportunity to look closely to posch people. The first thing I realized is they weren't that posch. I mean they were richer than us, but only small executive type. I could see those ugly guys with really pretty girls, that's the power of love.
Selling things to rich people, specially for charity, is a really good thing if you want to see how mean they are. The poorest the generous, the richest the mean. But that's not exactly true. If they were with their pretty tall blondies they gave more money (one of them gave 20£), but if they were alone they only give the minimun. They were very generous, all of them, even the meaniest. I wander if I had done the same thing in Spain we'd colect the same amount.
The prizes were really good, and also the price of the raffle, so we were really succesful, and drunk, and happy. Everybody was happy, specially the guy that won the 1st prize, a nice guy, he really deserved it.
Later that night more things happend, funny things, well, just two, but I'll leave them for the next post as my money runs out on the cyber.
Cheers. See you soon.
Manoel.
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