Monday Challenge - Drinking Calypso's

So last week Fred tried to eat crisps, he failed. This week Conor wanted to drink 48 cups of Calypso, a total of 8.8 litres. He was crazy to even think it would be possible, I tried telling him but he wanted to try so Alex spent £4 buying 4 crates (total of 48 drinks) in order to make it happen.

He was even more disappointing than Fred managing just 9 before he couldn't take anymore making him 39 short! This meant we had LOTS of left over drinks so me and Luke started our challenge to see who could drink 1 crate consisting of 12 cups the quickest. After seeing Conor manage just 9 I was sceptical about whether I could do it and I was right to, I only managed 9 too.

It's much harder than you think it's going to be, you get a few down you and already you can fill the consequences as your belly starts to expand. Getting to 9 was basically my limit, I think I could have gone to 10 but it would have taken me like 5 more minutes so I decided to call quits there and admit a draw with Conor. Luke on the other hand was able to manage the full 12, however he ended up being sick and going home bless him.

There's video clips of the ordeals but I won't bother uploading them as they will be big in file size. I also filmed Conor bursting one and getting it all over himself, rather funny.

What will happen next week? I'm not sure as Luke being sick really has been a big highlight and will be hard to top. I'm just happy to wait and see what happens, see an image below of what the cups of drink looked like if you don't know what calypso's are.

Taylor Punched Me!

Silly girl thought I was gonna block it but considering her fist was just a foot away I didn't have enough time to react, I'm not superman! lol.

Don't have anything else interesting to say today apart from I'm glad it's the weekend!

Oh and I got a yummy baguette for £2 at lunch which contained Cajun Chicken and Caesar Chicken, I sure do love my baguettes from that bakery lol.

Crisp Challenge Happened

So as planned Alex went to Farms Food at break time, spending £3.19 on a box of 32 packets of Walkers. Now Jamie cancelled out due to ulcer but thankfully Fred said he would give it a go instead, stating Alex would have to use a public bus for the next month if he was able to eat all 32 in the alloted time.

Fred tried, but failed.... badly. Managing just 10 packets in 25 minutes he was averaging a packet every 2 and a half minutes which just wasn't going to be enough to reach the task he had assigned himself. I knew eating 32 wouldn't be possible but I had predicted him to last a lot longer than 25 minutes and to hopefully accomplish 20, a more realistic goal. Aaron seems to think he could do it, he may be trying next week.....

In other news I am starting to get behind with college work. I'm not too bothered because the teachers (Sue and Gordon) are behind on their marking so I have a legitimate excuse as to why I haven't bothered to do it as they haven't shown the effort to do their side of the deal. Will try and do Wahid's Computer Systems Unit tomorrow, just one more task to go and then I'm finished.

Ahhhhh, Presentation Tomorrow

So it's been coming for months now and finally I am going to give my presentation on skateboarding in my Communications and Employability lesson at College. I knew straight away skateboarding was the topic for me, it's obvious to everyone it's my big passion in life so being given the chance to share what skateboarding gives to me to my colleagues is a great opportunity.

However it hasn't gone quite like that. My overall aim was waaay to big, I wanted to talk about loads and after giving my draft speech my teacher told me that I hadn't gone as indepth as possible in the sections I had done, thats when I made the decision to cut out lots and stick to giving a storyline of the progression of skateboarding through the years.

So after a hectic week of trying to get it done it's now complete to a satisfactory standard. I didn't think it would be so hard to find pictures of Rodney Mullen and Ryan Sheckler as kids but it really was, on a few occasions I've had to make do with pictures that aren't too adaequate but will have to do. That's going down tomorrow at 1:15, hopefully I will be fine.


In other news it was my Dads birthday today and thankfully Singstar Queen which I had ordered for him arrived a day before release date in time. Was £18 from HMV so cheap and quick so I am left very impressed. Wish I could say the same for One Tree Hill Season 3 which I also ordered from HMV on the same day for £15. It better arrive tomorrow!

Jamie's Crisp Challenge

Today was just a usual boring Monday involving going to college, doing next to no work and then returning home for the evening. It was made slightly more eventful today when Alex made the bet that Jamie wouldn't be able to eat 32 packets of Walkers in one lunch time (55 minutes). Now Alex is pretty rich so spending £3.20 to get the crisps from Farms Food doesn't matter to him, he just wants to laugh as Jamie fails to succeed next Monday. The reason for him failing is due to lack of time. He's going to need to eat a packet every minute and 20 seconds or so which really is going to be hard considering his pace will slow down and he will need to drink. Therefore I assume it to be impossible, I suppose we'll have to wait and see....

And I am a step closer to finally getting a set of drums for my 360 as my Key Skills teacher's son's girlfriend is selling the whole lot for £90 to me including the game. Great offer I just can't turn down!

Illness and No Posting Again

So I've had a cold and snotty nose for a good few days now, today I've been the best I have in a while yet when I woke up in the morning I did feel like crap.

Still, no excuse for not making posts. It's been 2 weeks nearly, I just never know what to say. I'll start off by saying how Farms Foods is my new favourite store as it has big packets of Haribo's for 69p, 2 litres of Pepsi for 79p and other fantastic cheap deals. Regardless to my love of pound land recently these are prices which Pound Land can't even compete with, so they have my current attention.

Another thing I want to mention is I started doing a spreadsheet file in Excel where I update everyday listing my income, expenditure and overall currency. It's handy as I am able to calculate how much money I have thanks to a few forumulaes plus be able to see what I spend the majority of my money on.

Got to do my Presentation on Skateboarding for Communications and Employability lesson at college on Friday, going to work on it all day Tuesday to hopefully make it fantastic! Can't be bothered to mention anything else, life is boring. Laterz xx

Conversion to Christianity Anyone?

So last friday I experience a surreal moment of my life. I'm going home form college, on the bus listening to my music for the 45 minute journey and the guy next to me started talking to me, being friendly. I'm not rude so I paused my music and said hello, why I was in Bedford and stuff as did he. Somehow we got on to the topic of him being a Christian (after a few minutes of random chit chat) and his friend who was sitting next to him just got off the phone and turned to greet me to.

Next thing I know I discover they have "healing powers" as they asked me if they could attempt to heal my wrist. I didn't have anything stopping me as my wrist bloody hurts and I'd love for it to be healed so I gave them the opportunity. The two of them overlapped their hands upon and beneath mine and lowered their heads, whispering some prayer. Now usually I would be laughing so hard right now but they're seriousness to actually want to succeed is probably why I didn't as I would have felt bad. After they failed (I moved my wrist and it still hurt) they asked if they could try again which I obliged to despite them inevitably failing again.

Now that was over and done with they decided it would be good to educate me about Christianity and heck, I was interesting. The bus journey I do everyday is always so boring so the chance to listen to this enthusiastic 24 year old tell me about God was a pleasant suprise. He asked me about my sins and turned out that I've failed the first 3 (lies, lust and theft) so my future doesn't look too good when it comes to heaven. Well that's what I thought but apparently Jesus is the one that died for all our sins and as long as I try I will still be accepted in to heaven. Hmmm.

Well I flipped the coin on them at one point, wanted to see how they reacted. As we were talking about belief in God and the miracles that Jesus did I decided I would argue the point that I've never seen any miracle and there's no real proof that God exists. Thankfully I have been on a Ouiji Board and have spoken to spirits and boy it's a scary but good experience. Ever since I did that I have believed in spirits and that's more believable that God that's for sure. One of the guys (was Kieran, he spoke the majority of the time and was originally on his mobile) said that God is a lovely caring man but also has a bad side and warns you not to do things. Not too sure what Kieran meant by that but I believe he was referring to spirits, hard to tell though as he would blab so much and go off the point of the topic divulging in to another similar one a lot of the time.

Eventually after 30 minutes or so it was my stop and I smiled and said goodbye. Although they haven't convinced me to believe in God or that humans can heal other humans I have taken something away from that experience which is Christians aren't boring dull people you may have stereotyped them for. The 2 guys have done skateboarding before and one of them does a bit of parkour, I thought that was cool.


Other news in my life is that Taylor's gone away to Derby on a Geography trip for a few days and I'm already starting to miss her. Feels weird not being with her in the evening as I'm so used to, going to spend the time doing assignments though as I have fallen slightly behind.

Can't be bothered to type anymore as I have 2 more blogs I need to accomodate for, just glad I finally bothered to type up my experience with the Christians lol.