My suprise

From Our strongest and most beloved friend

My best wishes to my great friend Valya. Who as I mentioned before is in India. She is suffering from Delhi belly. She feeds, the monkeys on her balcony. Her and her mother have great adventures ahead of them
I am here surrounded by books on India and think of her..

Happy Birthday Chris

Have a great day pal!

Lammas

I was awoken by a call from my computer repairers. I was annoyed by this as I had asked them to e-mail me, and they had not. They called me instead why do people do this?
Anyway, I set off for them, with my computer in tow. They told me they would repair my computer in half an hour or so. In the old days I would have gone to the Spinning wheel for a pint. However I am teetotal until march, so I refrained.

I went and did some shopping. Purchasing lightbulbs that didn't fit. I got my hair cut. However I still had time. So I went to see Lamas park.

I used to hang round Lamas park in my early teens. I had no where else to go. Too young for pubs. It was a bit of a way from home, so away from prying eyes. Oh and there were tennis courts there. So I used to go and look at the girls playing tennis. Which I am sure put tens, of young players off. I didn't have the sense or guts to go and talk to one of the girls.

I also used to buy and read. Oh and just read, pornographic magazines there. I did wonder if there are a few 1990's copies of Mayfair or New Talent. A magazine which promised only the youngest and freshest models, lying about in the bushes.

I was once head butted there. By the leader of a gang of Youths. They missed. They hit my head rather than my nose.

I also saw, a girl I went to primary school with. Who I now realise, was a long away from class too.

Anyway this is the background to my youth. Oh and I was also stopped by a police man,  once leaving the place with a copy of Men Only in my breast pocket. He believing I was up to no good demanded to see what was in my jacket. I almost fainted. He laughed and sent me home.

Happy Birthday Michelle

Parabens pelo seu aniversario!

Alles Gute zum Geburtstag!

French dreams

Last night.
I was dreaming I was in debate and conversation, with
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas_Sarkozy

I am not sure how it came about
The current President of France. Co Prince of Andorra. The discussion was held, in my old VI form common room in my old High school.
Along the many things I discussed, were the possibilty and benefits of moving CAP East and South, to bring the new members of the Union, up to speed. This did not go down well, with the French President.

Monsieur Sarkozy than walked back to the French Embassy. I asked did he not have a driver, he said there was no need. It was a nice day, and the Embassy was close enough

I was feeling pleased with myself, about securing face time, with one of the worlds most powerful politicans. Till my mother called me on my phone, and told me, the French premier had charged my Alma Mater for his time and security

I was chastened

Happy birthday

Birthday wishes to my youngest brother

I discovered

Several Calenders. Xena from 1999, Buffy from 2002, and UNC-CH Tarheels. The UNC calender was a gift from my friends Chris and Rebecca. They came to visit me at work

A road map of the USA. Which was a gift from some cousins. I think they wanted rid of it.

My Stargate SG-1 episode guide notes. I used to write these when I was unemployed. I did  reviews and synopses of the the first season of Stargate SG-1. 

My UNC-CH orientation booklet. My First year philosophy booklet.

The itinerary for the first trip my brother and I took to New York

A postcard of Jennifer Lien as Kes

Computer speakers from our old family computer, which never worked, but I hid, to stop my mother losing it, If she had bought something which was 98 percent faulty. 

My old CD player.

Paper plates

A packet of y fronts. I am a boxers man. I bought these in error. 

A sleeping bag. Black, which has gone to a music festival, which I did not attend

Several novels. One by Kay Scapetta which I found on the bus. Another on the Vietnam war, which my sister was reading at 9 or 10

Matches from my trip to the Czech republic

Cigars from the Dominican republic

Terminator 3 on VHS. I forgot I owned this

SD card holder

MS works CD

DVD case holders

The Pyramids of Mars Novel

Lead

An old torch

Stonehenge speech

I make no attempt to claim copyright. This is from the episode the Pandorica opens
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pandorica_Opens
MMy friend Valya is coming. I probably will not see her, but I am excited. This is how she makes me feel

What I saw

Some people have gnomes in their garden. This person decided to go a little better. I was shocked it was not all stolen. I was on my way to a football match today, and I saw this. So I took a snap. Thank you to the alternate gardener

To the young lady, with the pink streak in her hair.

I apologise again, for spilling Yazoo on your coat. I really hope it does not stain. You were very gracious about the matter. I wish you every happiness for the future

Yours sincerely

Malchera

Laggard January

Its been a long week

My package to North Carolina has arrived safely but over three weeks late

My Dell streak has not yet returned from the store

I sneaked out early but the evening manager saw me

The webcam I bought yesterday is not compatible with my other pc

I am not sure I will be able to see Valya at the airport on tuesday

I've lost some cash, so I will have top go sans coffee tomorrow

My beard itches

Despite being home early I still missed QI

I still do not know where to go in March

My pc needs a  new keyboard

18 days growth

Laughable Loves

My friend Kate suggested this to me. I would not have chosen it, the cover seems to be based on a chick lit paperback
Its a series of stories, written just before the Prague spring. Its a world, that has been forgotten and is  a shame. As this world should not be forgotten. The petty fallacies of one party rule. A young man trying to woo a pious lover. Is in danger of losing his position because the state frowns on religion. He is discovered leaving a church, and praying to a roadside shrine both are attempts to impress the pious Alice, both acts are noted and reported.
In a similar vein a Nurse who has a little too much to drink, and makes a mistake with her stove, could be removed to an asylum
There is a dig, at someone ordering vodka. Too Russian  A young couple are lead to a room with two single beds. This happens in the Tatra mountains which is now Slovakia
There is a mention of a Swedish girl stripping in Vienna. Which is surely anachronistic
A young editor, is described as being as nervous as a high school student facing the committee before his final exam.
There were no Etruscans in Bohemia.
Bohemians do not seek revenge with knives for the wrongs done to their parents. The thoughts of a girl who father lost his store to the revolution
One of the girls, whom the characters in a story flirt with sounds like she is underage.
It is a different world. However the failings of the actors up[on the stage of this world are universal. I saw myself in many of them.

Irina Christmas card

A christmas card from Irina

A card from Moscow,

Monsieur Renard a nuit

A card from Katherina, who is working hard, but greatly missed

127 hours

Whilst watching this film, I was reminded of an event in history. The Gunpowder revolution. Gunpowder was not just used for shooting people. It was also used for blasting, indeed my grandfather kept some for this purpose my father once had to hold up traffic on the road. So Grandad, could blast some rocks.
The natural world, is a senseless  thing
This review has spoilers
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The plot is no secret. James Franco, goes Hiking, he gets his hand trapped, in an accident. With no mobile phone, and in the wilderness of Utah, the antagonist is alone with his
Franco does a good job in the movie. He has to hold up the film’s universe on his shoulders. His character is a likeable loner. He gets thrown off his bike, cycling across the desert and photographs himself knocked on his ass.
The Utah landscape is beautiful. There is a moment, where our hero is covered in light, as it moves along his cavern. The Caverns and craters were the home of the Hole in the wall gang. The heroes of one of my favourite films. Butch and Sundance.
In a sense this film is a western it is man, in an alien environment and he has to conquer it, he has to impose order on his new world so he can be settled
Indeed the first thing James Franco see’s after he is trapped is an airplane trail, he may has well has been looking at men on the moon. The Human world is distant. For most of the film the nearest companion the lead has is a Raven which flies past his prison every morning
The protagonist efforts to free himself, take up most of the film, and his hallucation’s as he deals with his isolation and confinement. He see’s the party he was invited to earlier by two female hikers he flirted and walked with, his childhood, his lost love.
In watching this film I  was reminded of how dangerous and helpless we are alone in the natural world. A hundred kilograms of rock traps our hero. How stupid those people who seek to return us to it are.
A singular performance by Franco.

They do not worship cola in South America

Malchera has been making this stupid joke, for about a month now. It is not funny, and I have been punished. Thus I have written it out 30 times in order, to make sure I don’t forget.

You can also see my hand writing. I used to have to write 100 lines when I was in detention

In school we had a prepared line

``punctuality is the politeness of princes’’

A postcard from Kata

Wishing me well in 2011

As I heard Shakira is single

A pic of Malchera looking hot

A gift from a co worker

Beats a book token

Why I didn't make a Christmas Video this year. Well I had the idea, of making it amongst the Glutwien and cheer of my Germanic winter trip.

I did not care for Vienna. I really didn't. I don't look well in that video either

Bearded like a pard

Frozen Canada all over again. I want to die on the hottest day of the year, shot through the heart by an angry father…

Happy birthday Cli

Happy birthday little sister

2550 orders

2550 orders yesterday. The busiest day, I can remember, busier than at any point in 2010. There were more than a few staff orders in the mix too. We were short 1/5 of our total staff.  That number skewed early.
I slept like a baby, or Susanne, last night

I hope Katherina feels better

Happy Birthday to my friend Dorthe

Happy Eastern Chrismas, for the  6th

Happy Birthday Lexie

LA MULŢI ANI

 Joyeux Anniversaire Sonia !

Pete Postlethwaite

7 February 1946 – 2 January 2011
Actor, Teacher, Father,
`` Sgt.Obadiah Hakeswill’’
        "Kobayashi"
The last film I saw, in the cinema. ``The Town’’ starred Pete Postlethwaite  Adding weight as always

For the record I am not a

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