Hey everyone! Good to be putting up a post again, happy new year to one and all.
Here's a little post to kick start the year telling you my favourite films. Here's a top 10 list:
10. Rocky Series
Apart from Rocky V, this film series is awesome. Sly Stallone plays the role of Rocky Balboa, a boxer who lives in Philadelphia. Rocky I kicks the story off well, with Rocky, this nobody club fighter given once in a lifetime shot at the title by the heavy weight champion Apollo Creed on thanks giving. This kick starts his career and he goes on to awesome things, of the six, Rocky IV is my favourite!
9. The Die Hard Series
I know that this is four films, not one, but in my eyes the four films are one film, just split into four hundred minute odd long chunks of action and awesomeness. Die Hard one was the first one I watched, I found it pretty incredible, being a young kid at the time it got me hyped and excited. Die Hard two matched it, completely different story, but a great film. Number three was also good, playing in some of the story of Die Hard one, and Die Hard four which Bruce Willis released in 2007 was another great film which took advantage of the technology available which they didn't have in the first three films. Die Hard five is said to be out in February, can't wait to go see it!
8. 12 Angry Men
Voted at number six or seven on the IMDB top 250 of all times, 12 Angry Men is a weird, but pretty incredible film. The whole entire film (except for a couple of minutes at the start), is set in one room. Twelve men (the jury) try and decide whether a young boy is guilty of murder, eleven don't even hesitate to say he is, but there's one man of the twelve who said he wasn't guilty and the whole film is basically the one man trying to convince the other eleven men that he's innocent, the whole film is on youtube. (Make sure you watch the original and not the crappy remake). Go check it out!
7. The Rambo Series
John Rambo, to me, is a flipping legend. Stallone is a genius and these films were fantastic. My favourite has to be the first one, but the others are all great, Rambo two was probably the worst but you can all be the judge of that, these films were one of the many film highlights of my childhood.
6. Gran Torino
Clint Eastwood at his usual best, this film almost made me cry. One of the best films ever made in my opinion, a story that was told beautifully and Clint really makes you understand the relationship between his character and his Chinese neighbours. My dad even said this film was fantastic and he's often one to say things are just "alright".
5. One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
This film is PRICELESS. If you haven't seen it then I don't know why you are sitting reading this, this film is the boss. I love it the story so much, it moved me in a way I'll admit, but it didn't make me cry, honest! But seriously, I really recommend you watch this, I'm sure you'll be left satisfied with the sheer immensity of this film.
4. Shawshank Redemption
Voted as the best film of all time by IMDB, Shawshank Redmption certainly deserves it, it's a great film with loads of twists and clever side stories. Only number four on my list but it's many people's favourite and I would happily sit through it again and again as it's just fab.
3. Saving Private Ryan
I only watched this for the first time about a year back, it's a very violent and sad world war II film. A lot of people don't really rate this film, but I love it to bits. I had to watch it a few times to fully understand it, but it's one of Tom Hanks' best works, give it a try if you haven't seen it yet!
2. Forrest Gump
Another Tom Hanks gem, I've seen this film about thirty times, it never gets old. It's an incredible, unique story about a "retard" called Forrest Gump. The film takes you up and down an action packed, emotional, comedic roller coaster. Tom Hanks at his absolute best, an incredible film, which is all the way down at nineteen on the IMDB 250, should be a lot higher in my opinion.
1. The Green Mile
For some this may surprise a few as being my number one, but this film, I thought was flippin' fantastic. I only watched last year after borrying it from my uncle, but in my opinion it was the best film of all time. I'm going to be honest, it's the only film to ever make me cry, in fact I cried like a baby. If you want to watch it, make sure you're alone and focused and have a lot of time free, as it's a pretty long film (about three hours) but it's worth it, the story is just incredible.
So there you have it guys, my top ten films of all time!
See you soon!
Tuesday, 1 January 2013
Saturday, 24 November 2012
Back!
I'm back, with a little post just to tell you what's happening what to expect from this blog in the future.
It's getting to that time where exams are coming thick and fast, although they are mocks, they are still very important. Homework is pretty heavy and getting heavier, but I'm coping, and life is still good.
Tonight is my grandmother's 80th birthday celebration. Although her birthday is not until Christmas day, we decided to do it in November as the venue is always booked up during the festive period and it saves money. My grandma only wanted close family, so guests will consist of her, her long term partner, her 3 sons and their kids. Oh and a couple of the grandsons are bring their girlfriends along with them, should tally up to 20, looking forward to it, may take a couple of photos.
Now to the blog, I'm not really sure where to take this blog really, I may just do this sort of thing, the occasional post or I may do something a lot more regular, really not sure. I'll let you guys know.
Anyway, got a busy day and night ahead as you know, I'll post again sometime soon.
Peace!
Saturday, 20 October 2012
A story for you
Wow, it's been a long time since I blog-posted, a full 15 days!
Not much has been happening in the last two weeks, I am just an average boring teen after all...
So I shall tell you a story instead...
One day, there was a wolf. The wolf was sitting by a tree, looking really upset. A man who was walking through the woods saw the upset wolf, and went to sit down with it.
"What's wrong?" The man asked. "Nothing that concerns you!" The wolf replied angrily. "Mind your own business!" He then said.
The man was very puzzled by the wolf's reaction to his kindness, so he got out his gun, shot the wolf in the head and took it home to eat for dinner. He really enjoyed the juicy lush tasting wolf meat.
The man then went out again, and saw monster sitting by a tree, looking upset. "What's wrong?" The man said. "Nothing that concerns you, now go way and mind your own business!" The monster said. The man was so annoyed by the rejection to his kindness, so he got out his gun, and shot the monster in the head loads of times, and took it home to eat. The man really enjoyed the monster meat, then he went out again.
Then all of a sudden, cries of help were heard from the distance, the man ran in the direction in which the cry came from, to his shock, it was a dragon. "What's wrong?" Said the man.
"Oh thank goodness, I was really hungry and I needed some food, have you got any?" Said the dragon. "No I haven't got any food." Said the man.
So the dragon flew over to the man, and ate him.
And the moral of the story is, don't ever talk to swans.
The end.
Not much has been happening in the last two weeks, I am just an average boring teen after all...
So I shall tell you a story instead...
One day, there was a wolf. The wolf was sitting by a tree, looking really upset. A man who was walking through the woods saw the upset wolf, and went to sit down with it.
"What's wrong?" The man asked. "Nothing that concerns you!" The wolf replied angrily. "Mind your own business!" He then said.
The man was very puzzled by the wolf's reaction to his kindness, so he got out his gun, shot the wolf in the head and took it home to eat for dinner. He really enjoyed the juicy lush tasting wolf meat.
The man then went out again, and saw monster sitting by a tree, looking upset. "What's wrong?" The man said. "Nothing that concerns you, now go way and mind your own business!" The monster said. The man was so annoyed by the rejection to his kindness, so he got out his gun, and shot the monster in the head loads of times, and took it home to eat. The man really enjoyed the monster meat, then he went out again.
Then all of a sudden, cries of help were heard from the distance, the man ran in the direction in which the cry came from, to his shock, it was a dragon. "What's wrong?" Said the man.
"Oh thank goodness, I was really hungry and I needed some food, have you got any?" Said the dragon. "No I haven't got any food." Said the man.
So the dragon flew over to the man, and ate him.
And the moral of the story is, don't ever talk to swans.
The end.
Friday, 5 October 2012
Is there such thing as a perfect circle?
My initial answer would be no, you cannot draw, create, or make a perfect circle in any way, it simply cannot be done.
You may think that if you get a compass, and draw a circle on a piece of paper that the circle you draw will indeed be perfect, but it won't be, in fact, it will be far off perfect, extremely imperfect in fact, but why? Well, I'm here to tell you why.
Firstly, to have a perfect circle, you would have to have a shape where every single point is the EXACT same distance away from the centre. And by exact I mean exact, exactly the same. In scientific terms, you would find it extremely difficult to draw two lines the exact same length, next to each other, but why?
If I say to you now, draw two lines parallel to each other on a sheet of paper, both MUST be exactly 1cm long. You would get a ruler, and carefully measure two 1cm lines next to each other on your piece of paper. "Haha!" You may say. "Two lines, both exactly 1cm in length, there you go." Wrong my friend, let's look a bit closer.
So we measure with a ruler, down to the millimetre (1/10 of a centimetre). Hmm, looks pretty much the same, let's go deeper. So I get out another special ruler, with micrometres on it. (1/100) of a cm. And there you have it, one line is 3 micrometres longer than the other. I looked closer at it and showed you that those lines are not indeed equal, you could not do it!
But if you did manage to do it, then you could just measure the two lines in nanometres (A millionth of a metre) and so on until you would get down to yoctometres (which you wouldn't have done, but anyway, this is an example). A yoctometre is a 100,000th of the diameter of a neutron. If you don't know how small that is, that is so small that you can't even imagine it, it's so tiny that it is only used to measure things like how far light travels of the time of a septillionth of a second or something, which only weird scientists would even bother to find out. This length is so small it's hard core.
Why do I mention this length? Because, if you are someone who thinks that you can have a perfect circle, then that means you are saying that there has, or will be, or it is possible to draw a shape where every single point is exactly the same distance from the centre, in yoctometers. Even a computer wouldn't be able to do that, it simply just can't be done, by a computer or a human.
But, as my friends have pointed out recently when I brought this up at school, it is not impossible. Who's to say that one day someone will do that, by fluke or something? But what I am saying is that no one has ever, in the history of the world drawn a perfect circle, and no one ever will, just because it's difficulty level is so extreme, it is the closest you can get to impossible, without something being impossible, in our entire universe.
That's a big statement to make, that drawing a perfect circle is basically the most difficult thing that you can do in the whole entire universe, but I believe it's true, a perfect circle is very misunderstood by most, so please don't misunderstand it!
You may think that if you get a compass, and draw a circle on a piece of paper that the circle you draw will indeed be perfect, but it won't be, in fact, it will be far off perfect, extremely imperfect in fact, but why? Well, I'm here to tell you why.
Firstly, to have a perfect circle, you would have to have a shape where every single point is the EXACT same distance away from the centre. And by exact I mean exact, exactly the same. In scientific terms, you would find it extremely difficult to draw two lines the exact same length, next to each other, but why?
If I say to you now, draw two lines parallel to each other on a sheet of paper, both MUST be exactly 1cm long. You would get a ruler, and carefully measure two 1cm lines next to each other on your piece of paper. "Haha!" You may say. "Two lines, both exactly 1cm in length, there you go." Wrong my friend, let's look a bit closer.
So we measure with a ruler, down to the millimetre (1/10 of a centimetre). Hmm, looks pretty much the same, let's go deeper. So I get out another special ruler, with micrometres on it. (1/100) of a cm. And there you have it, one line is 3 micrometres longer than the other. I looked closer at it and showed you that those lines are not indeed equal, you could not do it!
But if you did manage to do it, then you could just measure the two lines in nanometres (A millionth of a metre) and so on until you would get down to yoctometres (which you wouldn't have done, but anyway, this is an example). A yoctometre is a 100,000th of the diameter of a neutron. If you don't know how small that is, that is so small that you can't even imagine it, it's so tiny that it is only used to measure things like how far light travels of the time of a septillionth of a second or something, which only weird scientists would even bother to find out. This length is so small it's hard core.
Why do I mention this length? Because, if you are someone who thinks that you can have a perfect circle, then that means you are saying that there has, or will be, or it is possible to draw a shape where every single point is exactly the same distance from the centre, in yoctometers. Even a computer wouldn't be able to do that, it simply just can't be done, by a computer or a human.
But, as my friends have pointed out recently when I brought this up at school, it is not impossible. Who's to say that one day someone will do that, by fluke or something? But what I am saying is that no one has ever, in the history of the world drawn a perfect circle, and no one ever will, just because it's difficulty level is so extreme, it is the closest you can get to impossible, without something being impossible, in our entire universe.
That's a big statement to make, that drawing a perfect circle is basically the most difficult thing that you can do in the whole entire universe, but I believe it's true, a perfect circle is very misunderstood by most, so please don't misunderstand it!
Monday, 1 October 2012
FIFA 13 - First thoughts
So one of the biggest games of year came out on Friday, if you have any male friends than expect them be away for a bit if you don't own the game yourself.
I got the game the day after it came out, early Saturday morning, and despite the fact I had a Science exam today and a French exam tomorrow, I have barely had the xbox turned off, this game is dragging me in, I can't see a way out.
The game is a step up from FIFA 12, the game play just feels better and they've added a few more realistic features into it, little things like subs warming up and the pitches look more realistic, the ball moves more realistically and there's more I can add.
They've added a new game mode called skill games, and they've made it so in the arena before a game you can have a quick go at these skill games before your game.
But, every single game has negatives, FIFA 13 for me is definitely one of them, here's my list of negatives:
1. You had the woodwork lots - Very annoying this, it must be deliberate as there's no way in FIFA 12 that I would hit the woodwork as much as I have done in FIFA 13, once if not twice a game the ball will strike it!
2. Attacking intelligence - can make the attackers stupider - The amount of times I have sent the ball over and my striker doesn't latch on to it because he's trying to be too smart, a flaw no doubt, hard to explain it fully, but trust, it's annoying.
3. Defending is very hard... - At moments in a game I could suddenly have a 3 on 1 attack coming my way. Where are my defenders gone? Who knows.
4. Long shots are easy, too easy in fact. - I've been scoring long shots too often, in fact earlier on I was doing a career with Celtic, last minute of the game I was already winning 4-1 or something, so I shot from not far in from the half way line with Hooper, the ball only goes and flies in, awesome goal, but on FIFA 12 I would never have scored from there! Unrealistic, footballers don't score from 40 yards regularly you know!
5. Frustrating little glitches are still lurking about. - I've been disconnected from the EA servers a few times already, not as bad as it was on FIFA 12, but who's to say it won't get worse, so annoying when you're playing around in UT then get kicked off!
I could name a few more, but I'll stick with 5, I don't want to make a long list, as I did say I liked the game above!
But every game will have problems and negatives, so I'll just carry on as normal. And if you have an Xbox360 or a PS3, it's worth getting, £40 well spent, better than an iPhone anyway!
I got the game the day after it came out, early Saturday morning, and despite the fact I had a Science exam today and a French exam tomorrow, I have barely had the xbox turned off, this game is dragging me in, I can't see a way out.
The game is a step up from FIFA 12, the game play just feels better and they've added a few more realistic features into it, little things like subs warming up and the pitches look more realistic, the ball moves more realistically and there's more I can add.
They've added a new game mode called skill games, and they've made it so in the arena before a game you can have a quick go at these skill games before your game.
But, every single game has negatives, FIFA 13 for me is definitely one of them, here's my list of negatives:
1. You had the woodwork lots - Very annoying this, it must be deliberate as there's no way in FIFA 12 that I would hit the woodwork as much as I have done in FIFA 13, once if not twice a game the ball will strike it!
2. Attacking intelligence - can make the attackers stupider - The amount of times I have sent the ball over and my striker doesn't latch on to it because he's trying to be too smart, a flaw no doubt, hard to explain it fully, but trust, it's annoying.
3. Defending is very hard... - At moments in a game I could suddenly have a 3 on 1 attack coming my way. Where are my defenders gone? Who knows.
4. Long shots are easy, too easy in fact. - I've been scoring long shots too often, in fact earlier on I was doing a career with Celtic, last minute of the game I was already winning 4-1 or something, so I shot from not far in from the half way line with Hooper, the ball only goes and flies in, awesome goal, but on FIFA 12 I would never have scored from there! Unrealistic, footballers don't score from 40 yards regularly you know!
5. Frustrating little glitches are still lurking about. - I've been disconnected from the EA servers a few times already, not as bad as it was on FIFA 12, but who's to say it won't get worse, so annoying when you're playing around in UT then get kicked off!
I could name a few more, but I'll stick with 5, I don't want to make a long list, as I did say I liked the game above!
But every game will have problems and negatives, so I'll just carry on as normal. And if you have an Xbox360 or a PS3, it's worth getting, £40 well spent, better than an iPhone anyway!
Saturday, 29 September 2012
Brighton vs Birmingham - My day at the Amex
Well today was my second ever trip to the the Amex, and surprisingly my first ever Brighton game, as my first game was when the Amex hosted an England U17 match.
I was witness to a rare Brighton home defeat, to what many would say is poor Birmingham side, it was a shock defeat. Brighton had plenty of chances in both halves. Birmingham's goal, which was an awesome strike by their captain Burke, was one of their only attacks of the whole game, and I believe their only shot too.
I've seen better performances from when I went occasionally in the Withdean days, Brighton just didn't look like scoring at all, it just wasn't their night.
Credit to Birmingham, who were sitting low in the table going away to the league leaders, if I was a Birmingham fan I be over the moon, a great win for them.
The travelling to the ground was okay, we considered the bus and the train as a possibility but in the end we just ended up driving, found a space about a 15 minute walk from the stadium. Prices seemed a bit high in the ground for food and drink, but expectant for a football stadium, we didn't buy any thing, we simply walked in and grabbed our seats, but I managed to catch some prices on our way out.
So yeah, not the day out I was hoping for, Brighton would've won any other day, we just happened to go on a day when Brighton lost, oh well.
I am hoping to go to 5 or 6 home games this season, but we'll see, football really does drain your wallet out, I don't know how some football fans can go to every game, they must be rich or in serious debt!
One good thing about today was the atmosphere, even when Brighton were playing poorly the crowd were still cheering them on, even when they conceded the goal the first thing most fans did was sing their hearts out. Brighton and Hove Albion FC have them selves some amazing fans, a great club all round, proud to be a fan and part of the blue and white army.
Next time I will take some pictures, sorry for the lack of pictures for those of you who like that sort of thing!
Sunday, 23 September 2012
Footballer's Wages
I think most football fans would agree that footballers get paid a stupendous amount of money for the job they do. Most premiership footballers get paid £40,000 a week at least, and the best premiership players and the best in Europe are on salaries of over £1,000,000 a month. Now, let's do a bit of maths, shall we?
Let's take Samuel Eto as an example, the world's most highly paid footballer, who plays for Russian side Anzhi Makhachkala, a football club which most football fans wouldn't have even heard of a couple of years ago. He get's paid £1,500,000 a month, that's around £370,000 a week, £52,000 a day and around £2,000 per hour, and if you really go down, it's 60p a second. Now, each Russian team plays 30 league games a season, if you add cup games and if a team gets into Europe, Anzhi probably play around 38 games a season, let's round that up to 40, so 40 games a season. Eto probably won't play all 40, let's say he plays 35 of them. So that's £18,000,000 for 35 games, 35 games adds to 3150 minutes of football, given that he will be subbed off from time to time, let's say that he plays 3,000 minutes of football for Anzhi in 1 year. £18,000,000 divided by 3,000 is 6000. Sorry for dragging all this maths on, but that shows that Eto get's £6,000 for every minute he plays for Anzhi. Now that is absolutely delusional in my opinion.
A fireman, or a policeman who risk their lives, get paid only enough to put food on the table and maybe give their family a good Christmas. That's if they aren't called into work on Christmas day. A fireman gets paid in a year what Eto does in half a day. Am I the only one who thinks that this is just ridiculous?
There is the argument though, that footballers deserve the money the get, as they provide "fantastic entertainment." Rubbish I say, because saving someone from a fire or going out at 4 in the morning to take a women in labour to hospital, or getting shot at by terrorists in Afghanistan, is far more important than providing entertainment for some football fans.
So, overall my opinion is that most footballers do not deserve the money they get, money has ruined football, there's no doubt about it. It's all about money now, if a club has money then they will be successful, if a club doesn't then they won't.
Let's take Samuel Eto as an example, the world's most highly paid footballer, who plays for Russian side Anzhi Makhachkala, a football club which most football fans wouldn't have even heard of a couple of years ago. He get's paid £1,500,000 a month, that's around £370,000 a week, £52,000 a day and around £2,000 per hour, and if you really go down, it's 60p a second. Now, each Russian team plays 30 league games a season, if you add cup games and if a team gets into Europe, Anzhi probably play around 38 games a season, let's round that up to 40, so 40 games a season. Eto probably won't play all 40, let's say he plays 35 of them. So that's £18,000,000 for 35 games, 35 games adds to 3150 minutes of football, given that he will be subbed off from time to time, let's say that he plays 3,000 minutes of football for Anzhi in 1 year. £18,000,000 divided by 3,000 is 6000. Sorry for dragging all this maths on, but that shows that Eto get's £6,000 for every minute he plays for Anzhi. Now that is absolutely delusional in my opinion.
A fireman, or a policeman who risk their lives, get paid only enough to put food on the table and maybe give their family a good Christmas. That's if they aren't called into work on Christmas day. A fireman gets paid in a year what Eto does in half a day. Am I the only one who thinks that this is just ridiculous?
There is the argument though, that footballers deserve the money the get, as they provide "fantastic entertainment." Rubbish I say, because saving someone from a fire or going out at 4 in the morning to take a women in labour to hospital, or getting shot at by terrorists in Afghanistan, is far more important than providing entertainment for some football fans.
So, overall my opinion is that most footballers do not deserve the money they get, money has ruined football, there's no doubt about it. It's all about money now, if a club has money then they will be successful, if a club doesn't then they won't.
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