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General postings about whats going on in my life.

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There’s only one Hugh Shine

I went to the Ireland vs China game at Landsdowne Road last night with Mark and have to say that it was one of the most dull matches I’ve ever witnessed there. Ireland seemed flat and couldn’t create much during the first half. I thought we had a good shout for a penalty in the first half but chances were few and far between. There were quite a few Chinese supporters there and they made the most noise throughout the match as the crowd was unusually quiet. I suppose we didn’t have much to cheer about. 😐 Clinton Morrison came on in the second half along with Roy Keane and Morrison got the sublime goal ten minutes from the end to win it. A through ball down the right was begging to be lobbed over the keeper and he duly obliged. Have to say it was the only good thing that came out of the match. Hopefully the performances will improve ahead of the Israel game in June.

Now to explain the title of this post. 🙂 When we were leaving Landsdowne Road under the east stand I spotted a mate of Dave’s who we hadn’t seen in about 4 years. Mark walked straight past him but I stopped him and we got chatting. Turns out that he’s going to Oxegen with a few friends so we’ll be able to meet up there. We’re also trying to twist his arm into going to Spain in August with us. The weird thing was we had only been talking about him the week beforehand and Dave was wanting to get in touch with him. 😀 Really weird coincidence when you think about it.

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Faking It as a magician

Was watching Faking It on Sunday night and have to say it was one of the top things I’ve watched this year on tele. For those who are unfamiliar with the concept, they take a person and train them to do a completely different job in the space of four weeks. At the end of the four weeks theres a test of sorts to see if an expert panel can pick out the faker. Except the panel aren’t told that there’s gonna be a faker in the group. There’s been 5 series so far but I only caught the odd episode. They’re trying not to exhaust the format but there was a special hour and a half episode on Sunday night about a physics masters student from Edinburgh named Kevin McMahon who was to become a magician.

He went to live with a professional magician and his family in London and also got trained by a comedy/magician who would be able to teach him a bit of banter for his gigs. The whole thing wasn’t going so well (even after going to Las Vegas to meet Pen and Teller) but they brought in a third mentor who has worked with all the major magicians. The first word out of his mouth after seeing his performance was “shite”. 😯 Kevin was stunned but got serious about what he needed to do. Anyhow, after the final test none of the judges sussed he would be a faker and he went back to Edinburgh to resume his studies. However, he decided on a change of career and is now a full time magician doing kids parties, dinner parties etc. Here’s his web site. I thought it was fantastic to see someone take up a new career as a result of a TV show. More power to him.

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Gamecon 6

Well I’m at Gamecon at the moment and have been for the past…..eeemmmm….14 hours. 😕 Starting to get really tired but the event has been really good. It’s being hosted in the CityWest Conference Centre near Saggart and the venue is nice and big. For the unitiated Gamecon is a LAN gaming event where punters take along their XBoxs and PCs to play against each other in various competitions. There’s quite a few prizes on offer but I haven’t been able to get far in any of the comps. Probably down to my lack of practice. 😆 Anyhoo, I’ll post pics to Flickr (I have already but I need a couple more) on Monday after I’ve recovered. 6 hours to go. 😯

Follow Up: The event was great as I said but I was exhausted the next day. My dad picked me up at 10am so I had been at the event for 23 straight hours. 😯 I got a couple of hours sleep when I got home and thenI had to go out to my auntie’s place for dinner. One of the lads mentioned another LAN event, Darkside, which is on next month but I’m not too sure if I want to go to another one so soon.

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Paddy’s Day

Well it’s the obligatory Paddy’s Day post tonight. The country will be drowning the Shamrock in copious amounts of Guinness with the rest of the world joining in. For me its a different sort of day as I’m off the booze and that really has an affect on what you can do. I was going to go into the city to take a few photos but decided against it due to how hard it is to get around on public transport. Anyway, I’m in work tomorrow for a few hours so I’m going to chill and watch Spellbound which I bought on DVD last week. Have a good one. 🙂

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Brian O’Driscoll

The title of the post probably doesn’t make much sense but Brian O’Driscoll is the captain of the Irish rugby team who unfortuneatly lost to France last weekend in the Six Nations. I’m not a hardcore rugby fan but I’d sit down and watch a game but have to admit that France were the better side on the day. The reason for making Brian’s name the title of this post was a running joke myself, Mark and Dave had in the pub on Saturday night. There was a guy sitting next to us who looked like Brian so whenever he passed our table we’d say “Brrrriiiiaaannnnnnn O’Driscoll”. I don’t think he noticied but it was pretty funny to us at the time. 🙂

As I mentioned I was in the pub with Mark and Dave on Saturday night for a while. We only went down for a couple of hours as myself and Dave are off the booze at the moment. Mark and Dave hadn’t seen each other in about a month and a half because they are on opposite ends of shift work. It was good to see the lads anyway and catch up with whats going on. Myself and Mark are planning to go to Spain in August as my uncle owns an apartment near Alicante in Spain. It’ll just be for ten days or so but the break’ll do us good. Apart from that I finished off my cousin’s new PC on Saturday and have been meaning to tidy my room as well.