Monthly Archive for March, 2008

I had a good weekend.

First of all, I went on Saturday to see Cirque Du Soleil’s Delirium, at the Birmingham Indoor Arena. Basically, Delirium is a 2-hour-long show that is basically a music show. It’s a series of acts backed to a soundtrack, and, simply put, it’s amazing. The music is actually very good, and the performance is very good. My favourite part in the whole show was during the song “Cold Flame”, and featured one very talanted performer – she managed to keep about 7 hula-hoops spinning for the whole track, on her arm, foot, body, legs…you name it.

If you can get hold of the soundtrack, it’s quite good too, plus you can hear it, albeit without the visuals and wirthout the awesome sound of the NIA.

The stage is quite large too, I managed to get a photo of it before they told us to turn our phones/cameras off:

I would rate the whole show a 9.5 out of 10, it was that good, and well worth the £55 ticket.

We (I went with dad) also went to Pizza Express before the show, however we timed it a bit badly and ended up getting into the NIA just moments before they started. And we missed desert. So when it finished, at 10pm, we went back to Pizza Express and had a coffee, and I had another garlic bread with mozzarella on it. I like them. They’re tasty.

So, that was Saturday. Sunday was quite fun too, I went to Alton Towers again and managed to get five rides on Air, and about seven rides on the Spinball Wizard. It also started to lightly snow at about 16:45, before we left, which was quite annoying, because for “safety reasons” they said only three people could go on the Spinball Wizard at a time (usually you can fit four people into the car thing). Also, a tip – don’t have a whole 600ml soft drink right before you go on. It’s a bad idea.

Also, they have a new part of the park which is basically a pirate ship type thing, and you have water cannons, so you can wet people who are watching you. One small problem, they have cannons too. It doesn’t seem to be that popular at the moment, because it’s cold, but once it gets warmer I think it’ll become more used.

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So, that was my eventful weekend. Fun eh?

I got a Canon EOS 400D! Well, strictly speaking it’s my dad’s, since he paid for it, but I went and picked it up from Curry’s yesterday. £394, plus Canon have a £40 rebate on at the moment, so it’s pretty good value.

Only one small problem so far…1) the 8GB memory card I ordered off eBay only arrives on Monday, and 2) I’ll have to borrow our existing 256MB card on the weekend, from the old camera. And I can’t do that until tonight, when dad gets back from Italy. So, last night, and today, I can’t use it.

Ah well…you’ll hopefully see some good photos on my Flickr soon.

Well, at least my Christmas Present has a bit of a use. The Toshiba player I had came with two free HDDVDs in the box (300, and The Bourne Supremacy), but they also had a mail-in offer to get five free discs.

So, I got them in the post today – Children of Men, The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift, Full Metal Jacket, Swordfish, and World Trade Centre. Free!

So I’ve now got around £175 worth of free discs (that is, if each disc was priced at £25 which most of them are at HMV), and the player cost £180, so…I basically got an HD DVD player for £5. Neat.