Charlton vs. Blackburn

As the title suggests, i'm going to go to London in an hour or so to watch Charlton at home playing against Blackburn in the Carling cup. Let's hope it's a good match.

I also received my Economic Computing Coursework back. This was the coursework that all of us only realised we had to give this in the day before the deadline and stayed up until 5 in the morning trying to finish it. Well me and Matthew (my housemate) both used the same data and same equations. We only differed in setting out our calculation, doing the macros on excel and the written questions. He got 45% and I got 66%. I complained about our lecturer to my tutor before receiving these marks as she is incompetent. Now Matthew is going to talk to John Wall, our tutor to see why his mark was so low. She only ticked all the answers and didn't explained why the stuff was wrong. I really don't know under what criteria she corrected these tests.

Have to get ready to leave for London now. I'll let you know how the match went!

Società Italiana

I had a great night out today! Yesterday night we casually met up with two italians from the Italian Society in Surrey University and we thought it would be fun to organise a nice pub crawl of the italian society! We ended up organising it for the day after which was today. Heeheh it was only 4 of us but we had fun anyway. I met lots of people from my american football team in Time (Guildfords nightclub).

I bought a new wallet today, as my old one was breaking apart and all the money kept falling on the floor from it hehe. Went to marks and spencers and found a new one! I also found a present for my father but I won't say what or he'll know hehe.

I also watched a film yesterday..."Dead Man Walking"...It talks about how this nun (Susan Sarandon) tries to redempt a sentenced to life convict (Sean Penn) before he is executed. I think it is one of my favourite films although it is the only one that makes me cry like a fountain every time I see it... It's just so sentimental, and it makes you think so much about how the death penalty is wrong even if a man is totally guilty. It's such a good film!

Surrey Stingers Vs. Royal Holloway

Just came back from the match all bruised and aching. We won 58 to 6!!!!! That makes it 4 wins out of 4 matches this semester. I think it is a very good start to the season and i think we will get to the playoffs. Well, I pray we get to the playoffs.
I actually played really well in this match. I caught a 40 yard touchdown, caught another 21 yard pass making a first down, rushed for positive 2 yards (hehe not much but hey i'm a receiver!), and tackled the kickoff returner twice. I'm very happy.
After the match i was also approached by one of the Surrey PA Knights (a first league team that is going to play in the Eurobowl this year) coaches and he asked me if I was staying in the UK after University and that if I was they wanted me to come down to training...hehe impressive.Although I still have 2 years and a half to go til I finish Uni.

Ah good stuff and now a well deserved rest. No more matches till February. And let's hope we go all the way. It would be a dream to become champions, and a first time for the Surrey Stingers I think!

London...what a town!

AAAAAAAAAAAHhhhhhhhhh.Just came back from Brixton and from my shiny haired friend Chiara's place! Had such a laugh today. Chiara introduced me to Bollywood movies, and I must say, they are pretty cool. Sometimes too cheesy and sentimental but the songs and dances are great! I also met Chiara's dad, which was good, as he's going to Sri Lanka for a while.How cool.

I bought a great T-shirt from a charity shop in Brixton for £1.75 hehe how cheap is that! Gotta love charity shops!

Chiara, her dad and I then went to watch a film at the Camden Town Odeon cinema. We watched "The Constant Gardener", a film about how a pharmaceutical company is testing out new medicines on third world countries with the excuse of providing medicines fo the sick. It was very good.

Gotta go now, and wish me luck for tomorrow's match!!!!!

Going To Chiara's

Woke up really late today. I somehow lost chiara's ( a very close friend of mine) phone number and could not arrange for us to see each other tomorrow. Luckily she called me and decided to meet on saturday as I also have to get my rucksack that I left at ther place in Brixton. I'm looking forward to see her as I always have fun up in London with her!

I'm also going to go see a football match next week: Charlton against Blackburn, Carling cup. Hopefully a good match. I support Charlton by the way. I'm not a football fanatic but I enjoy a good game once in a while.

Saw the Fifth Element again today. hehe What a funny film. Every time I watch it I find something funny that I hadn't seen before. And if i0m not wrong it's by a french director Luc Besson, the same person that directed Le Grand Bleu, Wasabi and Taxi. I like all of those apart from Taxi which I found to be quite bad. Another excellent film he directed quite recently was Banlieue 13, very good french action film.

Gotta go now but i'll let you know how the weekend goes. And wish me good luck against Royal Holloway on Sunday (my american football match). They're a new team created this year, and have lost 3 out of three matches. Let's not lose!

Thanksgiving American Football Party (Surrey Stingers)

Boy what a beard i've grown!!!!! It scares me! We had a thanksgiving party between us of the college football team. We just met up to have a few beers and watch the two matches on tv. I had lots of fun.
Had a chance to talk to my favourite quarterback Kang (he's the man!), and his girl. Kang, without you this team would not make it this far..You have talent!!!Keep doing your stuff and we'll get to the playoffs, luv ya man!!!!Here's a photo of Kang and his girl, don't they look really sweet?

That's all for now:)

And another test gone

Just came back from the test... I must say it did not go too well. I'm pretty sure it went pretty bad. Everyone came out of the room lobotomized. I wonder why John Wall's (the tutor) courses always end up with the most failures every year... Maybe he should rethink his teaching. Or maybe i'm just not up to it. I don't know. I just hope I don't ave to resit this course over the summer as it would mean giving up a lot of things. I never learn do I.

Studying :(

I'm currently taking a small break from studying...Matrices...Inverse matrix, matrix identities, transpose of a matrix, unit matrix etc etc. A whole world of boredom!! As you can see from the cover of the book the answer is YES!It is hard. And it's as big and heavy as a brick. I personally use it more as a doorstop hehe!

Well let's leave the boring stuff away!
I heard that from midnight today, new laws will be in action in the whole of the UK. All pubs will now have the possibility to remain open 24 hours (used to close at 11 o'clock) . This law is being introduced in order to stop binge drinking...Somehow , i don't think it will work. The UK has a very big drinking problem, and that is why pubs used to close at 11. Maybe the government just needs more money. Just think on how much more beer and alcohol will be sold with pubs open 24 hours and how much of the VAT on alcohol will go to the government. But hey I might be wrong...Maybe the binge drinking will stop. When one is told to not do things he will do them...maybe by letting one do what he wants one will realise after all that there was a reason for saying not to do that thing. Let's hope for the best, but i'm sure that for the first few weeks the english economy will go down drastically as everyone will be drunk :D

Latest films i've watched!

Lately i've been watching quite a few films.
What about bob? is an excellent film with Biill Murray. It's a comedy about how a neurotic man (bill murray) shows up at his psychiatrist's holiday home and changes his family's life. This is a very funny comedy and I enjoyed watching it. I think Bill Murray is a great comedian.
Jerry Maguire. What can I say...great film. I especially loved Renée Zellwegger in this film and loved all the relationship between her and Tom Cruise. It was just great. Zellwegger is very beautiful in this film and I think that she ruined herself so much playing in Bridget Jones' Diary as she played around too much with her body, gaining and losing weight in too little time!
Last Samurai. I know i know...another Tom Cruise Movie. But I must say this is his best performance yet. This film is absolutely great, especially for me. I have a great passion for Japanese culture, new and old. This film is very sentimental and all the actors in it are amazing. And what a great ending!
Out of these three films if I had to tell you which one to watch i'd say Last Samurai if you havent seen it. It will make you cry!

Well I have to go to bed now as it is very late and I have to study tomorrow...have a test on thursday...:( not happy bout it!

Finished test

Just came back from finishing my test. It actually went better than I expected. I woke up at 7 in the morning to study a bit before the exam and it proved to be an invaluable revision. I'm gonna relax this afternoon maybe watch a film or something but I'll have to start studying again later this evening as I have a maths coursework test on wednesday. This one is also worth 50% of the course. Hope it goes well.

It's nearly Christmas!! And i'm getting in a christmassy feeling. Although I miss my friends and family back in Italy. You know you're used to being with your family so much that during these holiday periods you really end up missing them. You know it's true what they say...You only learn what things and people mean to you once you don't see them anymore. When I was small I always thought I couldnt wait to leave and live alone. Now that I live thousands of kilometers away from my family studying at University I realise I was wrong. I do miss everyone but i'll see them soon enough. Going back to Italy on the 17th of December...about a month and a half left :)

We won the match!!

I have just come back from Norwich where i have played my best american football match in my 4 years carreer! The match ended Surrey Stingers 38 - 35 UEA Pirates, Surrey Stingers being my university team. Well we got mashed in the first half being two touchdowns away from UEA but after the coaches talked to us during the break we turned our heads on and reacted. We managed to score 24 points, in only the third quarter. Fourth quarter we were down 11 points from UEA until we scored. We then were 5 points away from them. A touchdown would have won us the game. We only had 32 seconds left on the clock. Our running back actually managed to get a touchdown on the last play and we won the game. I was crying, yes i'm not ashamed to say that! I cried because i gave it 100%, you know what i mean?When you give something 100% and victory is so hard to get it all builds up inside you and when victory is achieved it all blows out. Well this is one of the happiest days i've had in my last few months. Our team has won 3 out of 3 games and this might well become my first season that I get to play in the playoffs. Sorry about this post only on sport but that's all I will be doing every sunday of the week hehe.
I'll try and add some stuff to my blog as I have a bit of time but then I have to go straight to bed as I have to wake up early tomorrow to study for an Economic Data Analysis test worth 50% of the course. Well speak to you all soon!

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Just created this blog.
I didn't sleep at all tonight. Need to go and catch a bus as I am going to Norwich to play an American Football Match. Will update other stuff when i come back