It was my fourth time going to London seeing my sister and her boyfriend. I had a great time when I visited there the last three times, but this time, it was FUCKING AWESOME!

We left home on Friday morning to go on the coach to London. There were no problems with the coach, so I didn't mind the long journeys there and back. However, the trains are much much better.

So we got to the flat, but my sister's boyfriend wasn't there since he was still on the plane heading back home from Burma. For the first night, I was playing on the PS3 and had a good go at Crash Team Racing, which I haven't played in YEARS. My original disc of the game no longer works, so I couldn't play on the game for a long time. Also, I wasn't too keen on getting it from Amazon considering there's no New condition copies of the game. I'm not fond of second hand games.

That wasn't the highlight of the night, however. My sister gave me an envelope and asked me to open it. Obviously I did and inside the envelope was...

TWO TICKETS TO SEE IRON MAIDEN ON 5TH JULY!! 0__0

This was a huge fucking surprise for me since I didn't even think I was going to see them that day. I did once considered getting tickets to see them, but I was told by my sister that the tickets for that event were sold out, which made me very disappointed. She did this because those tickets were an early birthday present from her. She claimed to have bought those tickets last November, so EVERYONE kept quiet about it until I was given the tickets.

Originally, I was going down to London to see my sister's boyfriend coming back from his holiday and to shop around in central London, but instead of going to shops, I went to see Iron Maiden on Saturday night instead (duh).

[sorry Newgrounds, this part had to be cut out]

Anyway, onto the main part of my weekend in London. Me and my sister left the flat to head to Twickenham Stadium. It took two hours there and back, but to see one of my favourite bands (perhaps my very favourite) on stage, it was fucking worth it! We arrived at the stadium at 6PM, despite the whole concert started at 3:30PM with support bands playing first. We weren't too keen on the support artists (Lauren Harris, Within Temptation and Avenged Sevenfold) so we agreed that it was better waiting later on when the main band were ready to play on stage.

When we arrived at the stadium, we had a look at the merchandise that was being sold at the stadium. With the money I was originally going to spend on stuff in central London, I bought a shirt and a mug from the store. I can't find a picture of what the mug looks like, but the shirt basically had this cover on the front and this cover on the back. Those two pictures are single covers for some of my favourite Maiden songs of all time, which is why I chose that shirt over the others.

After getting what we wanted from the store, we headed to our reserved seats, which were roughly around the centre of the stadium facing towards the stage. My sister claimed they were the best seats at the stadium and I'd say she's right. It was great to have a good view seeing the band and to sit down until Maiden came on.

Iron Maiden finally got on stage and the whole crowd were really excited. The band started off with Churchill's Speech followed by Aces High. Aces High is my favourite song of theirs, so playing that song first was a good way to kick off the show. The other songs they played were also great and I sung along to all of them. Here is the setlist for that night:

Intro - Churchill's Speech
Aces High
2 Minutes to Midnight
Revelations
The Trooper
Wasted Years
The Number of the Beast
Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Powerslave
Heaven Can Wait
Can I Play With Madness
Run to the Hills
Fear of the Dark
Iron Maiden

Encore:
Moonchild
The Clairvoyant
Hallowed Be Thy Name

For their current tour, all the songs they play are from the 80's (with the exception of Fear of the Dark), which was a huge treat for me considering most of my favourite songs of theirs are from that time. Unfortunate for me, there were some other favourite songs of mine that weren't played for this tour. But hey, the fact that I loved every song they played that night made it up. :D

Overall, the concert was brilliant! This is actually the first gig I've ever been to and it certainly will be one of the best, if not, my best gig ever! Around 55,000 people attended that night, which was said to be the biggest Maiden gig yet in the UK. Not only that, the lead singer Bruce Dickinson claimed this was one of the best gigs he ever played, so I felt honoured to have attended such a great event! :)

This is without a doubt one of the greatest days of my life and I'd like to thank my sister for buying the tickets for my birthday and my family for keeping this quiet the whole time and of course, the band themselves for touring around the world and playing such a great show at Twickenham Stadium last Saturday. Whenever they play in England again, I will love to attend to see them playing live again. My only suggestion for next time would be to have better support bands than the ones who were at Twickenham.

So on Sunday, me, my sister, her boyfriend and the flatmate decided to watch Hancock at the local cinema (OH, SPOILER WARNING). This movie I've been interested in ever since I saw the trailer and hearing a bit about what it's about. I liked the idea of the superhero in this movie who wasn't just another superhero and was Anti-hero-ish, but they seriously fucked up the second half of the movie. The plot seemed to have changed all of sudden and never explained well about how Hancock improved his act from his alcohol problems and bad attitude. The other part of the film explaining different stuff also made the movie worse. Seriously, the new Indiana Jones movie had a better ending than this and I thought that ending was BOLLOCKS!

Now I'm not saying the movie was entirely bad. The first half of the movie was great, but went downhill afterwards. Despite that, I found it more enjoyable than I Am Legend, the previous movie Will Smith was in. Now THAT had to be one of the worst films I've ever seen. Never have I seen such a boring and predictable film in my life.

And that's everything about my time in London. I will be going down there again, but we've not decided when exactly I'll go again. I'm guessing sometime in October/November when my sister is back there for her second year in University. I certainly look forward to going back there again. :)

...Holy shit, only 4 days left!

Oh, to you TLDR'ing bastards, here's a summary of what happened:

-London was great.
-My sister's boyfriend got back home on Saturday and celebrated his birthday.
-Iron Maiden kicked a lot of ass at Twickenham Stadium.
-Hancock was OK, but the second half was terrible.

See you all on Monday.

Also, here's an epic Tomb Raider III video:

HAPPY 31ST BIRTHDAY!!

Here's a picture of your awesome smiley!

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Notes:

* This includes singles, EPs, compilation and live albums as well as studio albums.
* I prefer buying CDs over downloading them (regardless of whether it's legal or not). If you prefer to download music rather than purchasing CDs, I don't mind that at all (besides legal issues, of course).
* My latest additions are highlighted in bold.
* No links to all these albums simply because they'll take up too much characters. Want to know more about a certain CD on my list, Google it!
* My dad's CDs don't count since they're HIS CDs and not mine. The artists I like from his CD collection are The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Mike Oldfield, Pink Floyd and Queen.
* The picture on this news post is my favourite 25 albums (in no order) out of all my CDs.
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After thinking about where I kept my list of CDs (which was on my Wikipedia userpage), I thought to myself that I should move my list here, which is where I'm more likely to update it whenever I get new CDs.

Here are my CDs:

Accept - Restless and Wild
Accept - Balls to the Wall
AC/DC - High Voltage
AC/DC - Dirty Deeds Done Dirty Cheap
AC/DC - Highway to Hell
AC/DC - Back in Black
AC/DC - For Those About to Rock We Salute You
AC/DC - Ballbreaker
AC/DC - Black Ice
Alestorm - Captain Morgan's Revenge
Alestorm - Leviathan
Alestorm - Black Sails at Midnight
Alice in Chains - Dirt
Alice in Chains - Unplugged
Amon Amarth - Versus the World
Amon Amarth - Twilight of the Thunder God
Angra - Rebirth
Angra - Temple of Shadows
Anthrax - Spreading the Disease
Anthrax - Among the Living
Anthrax - Persistence of Time
Anthrax - Sound of White Noise
Arch Enemy - Wages of Sin
Bathory - Hammerheart
Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath
Black Sabbath - Paranoid
Black Sabbath - Master of Reality
Black Sabbath - Vol. 4
Black Sabbath - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
Black Sabbath - Sabotage
Black Sabbath - Heaven and Hell
Black Sabbath - Mob Rules
Black Sabbath - Dehumanizer
Blind Guardian - Battalions of Fear
Blind Guardian - Follow the Blind
Blind Guardian - Tales from the Twilight World
Blind Guardian - Somewhere Far Beyond
Blind Guardian - Imaginations from the Other Side
Blind Guardian - The Forgotten Tales
Blind Guardian - Nightfall in Middle-Earth
Blind Guardian - A Night at the Opera
Blind Guardian - A Twist in the Myth
Blind Guardian - Another Stranger Me
Candlemass - Epicus Doomicus Metallicus
Candlemass - Nightfall
Candlemass - Candlemass
Carcass - Heartwork
Alice Cooper - Trash
Cream - Disraeli Gears
Dead Kennedys - Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables
Death - Symbolic
Death - The Sound of Perseverance
Deep Purple - In Rock
Deep Purple - Fireball
Deep Purple - Machine Head
Deep Purple - Made in Japan
Demon - The Unexpected Guest
Demons & Wizards - Demons & Wizards
Diamond Head - Lightning to the Nations
Bruce Dickinson - Accident of Birth
Bruce Dickinson - The Chemical Wedding
Dio - Holy Diver
Dio - The Last in Line
Dio - Sacred Heart
Dio - Magica
Dio - Killing the Dragon
DragonForce - Valley of the Damned
DragonForce - Sonic Firestorm
DragonForce - Inhuman Rampage
DragonForce - Ultra Beatdown
Dream Theater - When Dream and Day Unite
Dream Theater - Images and Words
Dream Theater - Awake
Dream Theater - A Change of Seasons
Dream Theater - Falling Into Infinity
Dream Theater - Scenes from a Memory
Dream Theater - Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence
Dream Theater - Train of Thought
Dream Theater - Octavarium
Dream Theater - Score
Dream Theater - Systematic Chaos
Dream Theater - Black Clouds & Silver Linings
Edguy - Mandrake
Edguy - Hellfire Club
Electric Wizard - Dopethrone
Elvenking - Heathenreel
Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Tarkus
Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Brain Salad Surgery
Emperor - In the Nightside Eclipse
Ensiferum - Ensiferum
Ensiferum - Iron
Ensiferum - Dragonheads
Ensiferum - Victory Songs
Ensiferum - From Afar
Exodus - Bonded by Blood
Exodus - Tempo of the Damned
Faith No More - The Real Thing
Faith No More - Angel Dust
Faith No More - King for a Day... Fool for a Lifetime
Falconer - Falconer
Falconer - Chapters from a Vale Forlorn
Fates Warning - Awaken the Guardian
Fates Warning - No Exit
Fear Factory - Soul of a New Machine
Fear Factory - Demanufacture
Fear Factory - Obsolete
Fear Factory - Digimortal
Fear Factory - Archetype
Finntroll - Trollhammaren
Finntroll - Nattfödd
Gamma Ray - Heading for Tomorrow
Gamma Ray - Land of the Free
Gamma Ray - Somewhere Out in Space
Gamma Ray - Powerplant
Gamma Ray - Blast from the Past
Gamma Ray - No World Order
Gamma Ray - Land of the Free II
Gorillaz - Tomorrow Comes Today (EP)
Gorillaz - Gorillaz
Gorillaz - Clint Eastwood
Gorillaz - 19-2000
Gorillaz - Rock the House (CD1)
Gorillaz - Rock the House (CD2)
Gorillaz - Demon Days
Grave Digger - Excalibur
Guns N' Roses - Appetite for Destruction
Guns N' Roses - Chinese Democracy
HammerFall - Glory to the Brave
HammerFall - Legacy of Kings
HammerFall - Crimson Thunder
HammerFall - Chapter V: Unbent, Unbowed, Unbroken
HammerFall - No Sacrifice, No Victory
Heaven & Hell - The Devil You Know
Helloween - Walls of Jericho
Helloween - Keeper of the Seven Keys Part 1
Helloween - Keeper of the Seven Keys Part 2
Helloween - Live in the U.K.
Helloween - Pink Bubbles Go Ape
Helloween - Chameleon
Helloween - Master of the Rings
Helloween - The Time of the Oath
Helloween - Better Than Raw
Helloween - Metal Jukebox
Helloween - The Dark Ride
Helloween - Just a Little Sign
Helloween - Rabbit Don't Come Easy
Helloween - Keeper of the Seven Keys - The Legacy
Helloween - Light the Universe
Helloween - Keeper of the Seven Keys - The Legacy World Tour 2005/2006
Helloween - Gambling with the Devil
Iced Earth - Night of the Stormrider
Iced Earth - Burnt Offerings
Iced Earth - Something Wicked This Way Comes
Iced Earth - The Glorious Burden
In Flames - Lunar Strain
In Flames - The Jester Race
Iron Maiden - Iron Maiden
Iron Maiden - Killers
Iron Maiden - The Number of the Beast
Iron Maiden - Piece of Mind
Iron Maiden - Powerslave
Iron Maiden - Live After Death
Iron Maiden - Somewhere in Time
Iron Maiden - Seventh Son of a Seventh Son
Iron Maiden - No Prayer for the Dying
Iron Maiden - Fear of the Dark
Iron Maiden - Live at Donington
Iron Maiden - A Real Live One
Iron Maiden - A Real Dead One
Iron Maiden - The X Factor
Iron Maiden - Virtual XI
Iron Maiden - Brave New World
Iron Maiden - Rock in Rio
Iron Maiden - Dance of Death
Iron Maiden - A Matter of Life and Death
Iron Maiden - Different World
Iron Savior - Iron Savior
Judas Priest - Sad Wings of Destiny
Judas Priest - Sin After Sin
Judas Priest - Stained Class
Judas Priest - Killing Machine
Judas Priest - British Steel
Judas Priest - Screaming for Vengeance
Judas Priest - Defenders of the Faith
Judas Priest - Turbo
Judas Priest - Ram It Down
Judas Priest - Painkiller
Judas Priest - Angel of Retribution
Judas Priest - Nostradamus
King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King
King Crimson - In the Wake of Poseidon
King Crimson - Lizard
King Crimson - Islands
King Crimson - Larks' Tongues in Aspic
Kreator - Pleasure to Kill
Kreator - Extreme Aggression
The Lord Weird Slough Feg - Down Among the Deadmen
The Lord Weird Slough Feg - Traveller
Lost Horizon - Awakening the World
Machine Head - Burn My Eyes
Machine Head - Through the Ashes of Empires
Machine Head - The Blackening
Manowar - Battle Hymns
Manowar - Sign of the Hammer
Manowar - Fighting the World
Manowar - Kings of Metal
Manowar - The Triumph of Steel
The Mars Volta - De-Loused in the Comatorium
The Mars Volta - Frances the Mute
The Mars Volta - The Bedlam in Goliath
Masterplan - MK II
Mastodon - Leviathan
Mastodon - Blood Mountain
Mastodon - Crack the Skye
Megadeth - Killing Is My Business... And Business Is Good!
Megadeth - Peace Sells... But Who's Buying?
Megadeth - So Far, So Good...So What!
Megadeth - Rust in Peace
Megadeth - Countdown to Extinction
Megadeth - Youthanasia
Megadeth - Hidden Treasures
Megadeth - Cryptic Writings
Megadeth - Risk
Megadeth - The World Needs a Hero
Megadeth - The System Has Failed
Megadeth - United Abominations
Megadeth - Endgame
Meshuggah - Nothing
Meshuggah - I
Metal Church - Metal Church
Metallica - Kill 'em All
Metallica - Ride the Lightning
Metallica - Master of Puppets
Metallica - ...And Justice for All
Metallica - Metallica
Metallica - Death Magnetic
Ministry - Psalm 69: The Way to Succeed and the Way to Suck Eggs
Motörhead - Overkill
Motörhead - Ace of Spades (studio)
Motörhead - Ace of Spades (compilation)
Motörhead - Motörizer
Muse - Showbiz
Muse - Origin of Symmetry
Muse - Absolution
Muse - Black Holes and Revelations
Muse - The Resistance
Nirvana - Bleach
Nirvana - Nevermind
Nirvana - In Utero
Nirvana - Nirvana
Opeth - Morningrise
Opeth - My Arms, Your Hearse
Opeth - Still Life
Opeth - Blackwater Park
Opeth - Ghost Reveries
Overkill - The Years of Decay
Overkill - Horrorscope
Ozzy Osbourne - Blizzard of Ozz
Ozzy Osbourne - Diary of a Madman
Ozzy Osbourne - Bark at the Moon
Pantera - Cowboys from Hell
Pantera - Vulgar Display of Power
Persuader - Evolution Purgatory
Queensrÿche - Operation: Mindcrime
Queensrÿche - Empire
Radiohead - The Bends
Radiohead - OK Computer
Radiohead - Kid A
Rage Against the Machine - Rage Against the Machine
Rainbow - Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow
Rainbow - Rising
Rainbow - Long Live Rock 'n' Roll
Rammstein - Reise, Reise
Revolution Renaissance - New Era
Rhapsody - Symphony of Enchanted Lands
Rhapsody - Dawn of Victory
Rhapsody - Rain of a Thousand Flames
Rhapsody - Power of the Dragonflame
Rhapsody - Triumph or Agony
Running Wild - Gates to Purgatory
Running Wild - Branded and Exiled
Running Wild - Under Jolly Roger
Running Wild - Port Royal
Running Wild - Death or Glory
Running Wild - Blazon Stone
Running Wild - Pile of Skulls
Running Wild - Black Hand Inn
Running Wild - Masquerade
Rush - Fly By Night
Rush - 2112
Rush - A Farewell to Kings
Rush - Moving Pictures
Savage Circus - Dreamland Manor
Savatage - Hall of the Mountain King
Savatage - Gutter Ballet
Saxon - Wheels of Steel
Saxon - Denim and Leather
Sepultura - Beneath the Remains
Sepultura - Arise
Sepultura - Roots
Slayer - Show No Mercy
Slayer - Hell Awaits
Slayer - Reign in Blood
Slayer - South of Heaven
Slayer - Seasons in the Abyss
Sonata Arctica - Ecliptica
Sonata Arctica - Silence
Sonata Arctica - Winterheart's Guild
Sonata Arctica - Reckoning Night
Sonata Arctica - Unia
Sonata Arctica - The Days of Grays
Strapping Young Lad - Heavy as a Really Heavy Thing
Strapping Young Lad - City
Strapping Young Lad - SYL
Strapping Young Lad - The New Black
Stratovarius - Fright Night
Stratovarius - Twilight Time
Stratovarius - Dreamspace
Stratovarius - Fourth Dimension
Stratovarius - Episode
Stratovarius - Visions
Stratovarius - Destiny
Stratovarius - Infinite
Stratovarius - Elements Pt. 1
Stratovarius - Elements Pt. 2
Stratovarius - Stratovarius
Stratovarius - Polaris
Symphony X - The Divine Wings of Tragedy
Symphony X - V: The New Mythology Suite
Symphony X - The Odyssey
System of a Down - System of a Down
System of a Down - Toxicity
System of a Down - Steal This Album!
System of a Down - Mezmerize
System of a Down - Hypnotize
Tenacious D - Tenacious D
Týr - Ragnarok
Uriah Heep - Salisbury
Uriah Heep - Look at Yourself
Uriah Heep - Demons and Wizards
Van Halen - Van Halen
W.A.S.P. - Inside the Electric Circus
W.A.S.P. - The Headless Children
Wintersun - Wintersun

I've already said I'm back from my holiday, but I haven't mentioned about my whole time there until now. So how was my time in Lanzarote? Overall, it was bad. There were good parts of this holiday, but the downfalls made it an unenjoyable holiday. However, I'll mention the good points first:

The food at the restaurant in the hotel was nice. Usually I'm not so great with buffet restaurants in foreign countries, but I actually gave different foods a chance and enjoyed them. The drinks were great. Since the hotel was all inclusive, we were able to have as much drinks as we wanted, so I enjoyed having cups and cups of Hot Chocolate in the mornings and at night and glasses of coke in between those times.

The Internet cafe at the hotel was quite good, unlike the atrocious one in Cuba. The most I spent on one night was only 20 minutes, but it was enough for me to check what my friends have said while I've been away. My only complaints about their Internet cafe were the cost for a short amount of time and the fact that the keyboards were set to Spanish, so most of the characters were changed around from the English keyboard. I found that a complete nuisance. I know I was using a computer in a Spanish island, but I just wish they could have had some of the keyboards set to English to make it easier to type.

Fortunate for me, I didn't have to lie around on any beaches for a single second. I was hoping we weren't going to some beach far away from our hotel, but that wasn't necessary since there was a beach right outside where we were. Only my dad really bothered with the beach while me and my mum just stayed around the pool area for most of the days.

So those were all the good points about the holiday. Now for the downfalls:

Like I've said on a few news posts ago, I don't enjoy hot weather in foreign countries at all. So I didn't enjoy the weather at all except at night time when it was much cooler. I will admit, I did like the place when it was night time, but for the day, it wasn't my cup of tea.

Another thing I've explained about this holiday before is that it was just me and my parents going, while my sister went to Burma last Friday. With just being with my parents, the holiday felt slow as fuck. Not only it was really boring most of the time, but my mum was being extremely annoying one night by talking to me about a bunch of nonsense that I didn't even care about. I was wanting to tell her to shut the hell up, but whatever she was saying I was just like "Yeah", "Right", "OK", etc. She was starting to piss me off, but I refrained myself from yelling at her.

What I also hated about my time away were the problems I had at the airports and the flight coming back home. At the airport going to Lanzarote, I was fucking searched! This is the fourth holiday in a row where this bullshit happened to me and I'm getting sick of it! All those four times were random searches and I fucking hate it when it happens to me!

The queues to check in to and from Lanzarote were an hour long. Not very good service for both times, but it wasn't bad compared to what the plane flight going back home was like. For when we were on the flight going back, the pilot claimed the plane didn't have enough fuel to get back and had to stop at an airport halfway to refuel. He also said the situation was "unavoidable", but I'm pretty sure it wasn't. And to take the fucking piss, throughout the whole flight and the two hour delay due to refuelling and waiting for the plane to take off again, there was a fucking kid sitting right behind me who was screaming her fucking head off and was also kicking my fucking seat! I had to put up with that brat for six hours straight and it was a fucking nightmare. The screaming from that kid was so loud, not even listening to heavy metal full blast on my MP3 Player was loud enough to drown the sound.

As soon as we were able to take our suitcases from the airport and get back home, I was so relieved. It felt good to be back home. I was really looking forward to getting back, seeing my pets and being able to use an English keyboard once again.

Now that I'm back, I'm now really looking forward to the next few months, most especially next month. There is only 26 days until I turn 18. Now I've already said everything about myself looking forward to that day, but damn, I can't believe there's only that little amount of days left. I just find it hard to believe how things are getting close now. :O

And about Flash, I'll be working on my favourite PMs flash, but I still need a bit of time before I start working on it. So far, I've done catching-up on all the journals to see and all the latest videos to watch, but I still have some more catching up to do. I should be ok to work on the flash in a day or two. :)

So yep, that's everything.

Ah, good to be back home.

I'll say something about my holiday once I've done catching-up on stuff.

See you all in a week.

Since I've not said much since I wrote up that journal about myself in London, I'm going to post all the latest updates to you all regarding several topics. They go by:

-Work
-My rabbits
-Counting down to my 18th birthday, my 100th flash and dreading my holiday in June.
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Work placement in Bootle is still going great. I was supposed to finish it this week, but since I'm enjoying the place a lot and missed five days working there, I requested another two weeks at the place. There's been no objections to this and I can work there for another two weeks, even if I'm not getting any pay for it being a work placement. Unfortunately, there are no vacancies right now, but whenever there are some, I am sure to apply there. However, I was hoping I could get employed at the end of the 6/8 week work placement.

There's another place that I applied to around six weeks ago. I've had an interview at this place and the interview did go well. Sadly, they've still not clearly told me whether I've got a job there or not, but I have been phoning up a few times asking for the latest updates. The employer recently told me that I'll hear from him either Wednesday or Thursday. Hopefully I do get somewhere with this.
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There's been some unfortunate events for one of my pets. Two weeks ago, one of the rabbits died all of sudden. This made me feel depressed since I didn't expect her to go so soon. Sure, she may have had some weight problems, but she didn't look terrible during her last few days. :( The other rabbit has been very lonely since, so we've had to get a new rabbit for the him. Unfortunately, the new addition hasn't felt very welcome in our back garden due to our old rabbit attacking her several times. We've had to keep a close eye on them and broke up any fights between them two. They're starting to get used to each other, however, but we're still going to make sure they don't attack each other.
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IT'S THE FINAL COUNTDOWN! DO DO DOOO DO! DO DO DOO DO DOOO!

...The final countdown to what? Well, a few things. There's only 48 days left until my 18th birthday and I'm only getting more and more excited about it. I'm not fully sure what presents I want for my birthday, however, but I do hope to see many people at my party. We (i.e. me and my family) have planned to invite many people such as our family, my friends and even going as far as to inviting all my classmates from primary school.

Inviting all my classmates from primary school may sound like I'm taking it too far (don't worry, there were only the 8 of us in one class unlike other schools that may have a class of 20), but one of the things I'd like to happen on my 18th birthday is to see all my old friends again. Some of them I still talk to, but the rest I haven't seen in YEARS! I mean, I'm not sure how they look now, how they're doing in life, etc. So my birthday party will be a great opportunity to meet them all once again. I'd love to hear from all my old friends again and I'm pretty sure they'd like to hear from myself and the others as well. :) This will be one of the highlights of my 18th birthday.

Of course, when I'm 18 I can legally drink in the public. That sounds good and all, but I won't be drinking too much. And by too much, I mean getting really drunk. I'm a responsible drinker and a drink or two for one night is enough for me. :)
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What else am I counting down to? There's myself getting closer and closer to submitting the 100th flash. I'm only 7 flashes away from that epic goal (or 6 on Wednesday). While that sounds very close, it doesn't mean I'll be there in a month or two. In a few months time, I could still be aiming for that goal. That's because of what I hope to do on my 100th flash. To avoid as much disappointments as possible, I'll not only need to make make a plot even more epic than Pokémon Bahamut Version and both parts of A Bahamut's Xmas Tale 2, but I'm gonna try and make improvements on my graphics and animation, most especially making my attempt to replace the Bahamut sprite figure with my own drawn version. It won't be easy, but I'm gonna do my best. :)

I have already made plans on what flashes I'll be working on before I make my 100th movie. The seventh episode in the Edgar N' Locke series is 99% complete and will be submitted this Wednesday, which will mark the first anniversary of the series and the third anniversary of my first flash Cigaro.

My other flash ideas are:

95th: A standard Bahamut flash using the very first voice recordings of Graham by Pokelord-EX.
96th: My favourite reviews.
97th: My favourite private messages.
98th: A big scene mix-up flash similar to Best of Bahamut.
99th: I won't say anything about the plot, but this could be my last flash for a few months until my 100th movie is finished.
100th: You'll find out when it's done.
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And is there something else I'm counting down to? Well, there's my holiday to Lanzarote for a week on 8th June. To be honest, I'm not looking forward to this holiday one bit. First of all, I don't like the hot weather at all, especially in foreign countries. I'm always needing to stay in the shade because it's too hard for me to cope with the heat.

Second, I don't like sitting around in beaches for hours while my parents and my sister do whatever they want. I cannot go in the sea water because it fucking burns my skin. Another thing about beaches, I despise the sand. I just find trying to wash the sand off, having sand in my sandals, etc, a downright nuisance. So for these reasons, it's pointless for me to go to any beaches. I've never enjoyed them in the past, I don't enjoy them now and I don't think I'll ever enjoy them. Maybe I'll change my mind the future, but...Well, I'll just see what I'm like in 10 - 20 years time.

Third, my sister won't be with us this time since she had money saved up to go to Burma sometime in June with her boyfriend. Even after the recent cyclone disaster, she's still willing to go. However, she claims she won't be anywhere near the affected areas. Me and my parents weren't happy about this, but really, it's up to her. So without my sister there to make the holiday more interesting, I'm gonna be bored to death with just my parents for a whole week. On the bright side, it's not two fucking weeks like when I went to that shithole Cuba.

Lastly, I don't really like having my daily routine messed up. I'm not saying that so I could be at home most of the time, but I really hate trying to get back to my routine when I've been away for at least a few days (going to London is acceptable, though), I always feel like shit. This is something I don't like at all.

So those are my reasons why I'm dreading this holiday. I wish I wasn't going, but it's too late to say that now. Plus, if I say any of these things, I'll just get yelled at by mum. Now I have no choice but to go away for a week and be very bored for the whole time (the DS may not be enough). On the bright side, this holiday should be over before I know it.

I apologise for bitching about my holiday too much, but that's my honest thoughts about them. I really have a huge lack of interest in these sort of holidays.
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