Just a brief update here...
I have recently been very fortunate to make a few more friends. Firstly, I have made a lot more Japanese friends at my local university. I've met about 10 people so far - they are all very nice people and I think they will become good friends of mine. Apparently, they think I am very Japanese.....is that correct??? I'm not sure what that means but I'll take it as a compliment. hehe. I hope to show them more aspects of the British culture in the near future.
I have also made more friends at my workplace and become closer with my team. Last Tuesday there was a night out in London for just the people in my team, expensed by Cisco as a treat for all the recent hard work. As a gesture from the team leaders for my hard work I also received a bottle of champagne. The night out was pretty good - we went to Soho for drinks, food and had a few giggles along the way.
I've been writing a few more songs now and then but nothing new recorded yet. Yeah, I know I'm lazy but I've also been really busy with work.
A couple of weeks ago I took another grading for karate and obtained my yellow belt. I'll end this blog with a video of the kata I had to perform as part of my grading. The kata is called "Heian Nidan" and, no, it's me in the video! ^_^
Sunday, 23 September 2007
Saturday, 1 September 2007
My brother's wedding
After months of preparation and wondering whether it would go ahead or not, the day of my brother's wedding arrived and the pressure was on to make sure everything went well. Luckily, everything went extremely well with almost no problems.
He had to take powerful drugs throughout the day in order to relieve the pain from the arthritus in his foot. He experienced some stiffness in his foot during the day but was able to walk without crutches.
After spending the night at Great Fosters, which is a famous 500 year old hotel about a 15 minute drive from my house, my brother and I got a taxi to Windsor. He was super cool about the whole thing. I know that inside he must have been feeling a lot of pressure, but it wasn't showing and he wouldn't let the pressure spoil his day.
The wedding ceremony was very nice - fantastic building, didn't go on for too long, very nice. I very nearly messed it up though....when I had to get the rings out of the box to give to the bride and groom I could not get the rings out. I thought they would just lift out easily but they wouldn't. I then realised the rings were on like a hook inside which you had to pull them out of...oh well, they did come out after 15 seconds of difficulty. I still feel pretty stupid about that.
After the ceremony we went for a few drinks at The Two Brewers pub right next to the long walk. The pub is where my bro proposed to his wife. We then took coaches back to Great Fosters for the wedding reception. Lots of drinks, lots of photos, lots of laughs.
Right before dinner we had speeches. As best man I had to make a speech, and this is where Jody mistake no.2 happened. hehe. Basically, my bro made a totally unexpected speech which, although long, was really funny and went down really well. So, here's what happened with my speech....I had this joke that I was going to use at the beginning. I said it and....guesss what....no one laughed. haha. So, I basically decided to do away with the speech and I just said some nice words about the bride and groom off the top of my head. Hopefully I made up for the stinker joke. I still think the joke was excellent though - maybe my drunken delivery was not so good...?
The food was absolutely fantastic. I was very impressed and ate every last bit. My bro had planned a bit of a surprise for during dinner and out came a Frank Sinatra impersonater to sing a few songs. The guy was absolutely excellent - sounded just like Franky baby. The night ended with a usual disco, drinks, partying, more food, cake cutting, etc. I had a really fantastic time
Above all, I'm really happy that my brother and my new sister-in-law had a great day and I helped to make it a great day. They were both really appreciative to me, but really I have to thank them both for being so great to me.
Brian and me
Me and Steve
Kieran and me
Mum and me
He had to take powerful drugs throughout the day in order to relieve the pain from the arthritus in his foot. He experienced some stiffness in his foot during the day but was able to walk without crutches.
After spending the night at Great Fosters, which is a famous 500 year old hotel about a 15 minute drive from my house, my brother and I got a taxi to Windsor. He was super cool about the whole thing. I know that inside he must have been feeling a lot of pressure, but it wasn't showing and he wouldn't let the pressure spoil his day.
The wedding ceremony was very nice - fantastic building, didn't go on for too long, very nice. I very nearly messed it up though....when I had to get the rings out of the box to give to the bride and groom I could not get the rings out. I thought they would just lift out easily but they wouldn't. I then realised the rings were on like a hook inside which you had to pull them out of...oh well, they did come out after 15 seconds of difficulty. I still feel pretty stupid about that.
After the ceremony we went for a few drinks at The Two Brewers pub right next to the long walk. The pub is where my bro proposed to his wife. We then took coaches back to Great Fosters for the wedding reception. Lots of drinks, lots of photos, lots of laughs.
Right before dinner we had speeches. As best man I had to make a speech, and this is where Jody mistake no.2 happened. hehe. Basically, my bro made a totally unexpected speech which, although long, was really funny and went down really well. So, here's what happened with my speech....I had this joke that I was going to use at the beginning. I said it and....guesss what....no one laughed. haha. So, I basically decided to do away with the speech and I just said some nice words about the bride and groom off the top of my head. Hopefully I made up for the stinker joke. I still think the joke was excellent though - maybe my drunken delivery was not so good...?
The food was absolutely fantastic. I was very impressed and ate every last bit. My bro had planned a bit of a surprise for during dinner and out came a Frank Sinatra impersonater to sing a few songs. The guy was absolutely excellent - sounded just like Franky baby. The night ended with a usual disco, drinks, partying, more food, cake cutting, etc. I had a really fantastic time
Above all, I'm really happy that my brother and my new sister-in-law had a great day and I helped to make it a great day. They were both really appreciative to me, but really I have to thank them both for being so great to me.
Brian and me
Me and Steve
Kieran and me
Mum and me
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