Took a few days to edit it all but pretty happy with how it turned out :)
Next episode I've wrangled a few friends to act in it as the baddies, so it should lead to some epic battles, and I hope this isn't going to be too big of a spoiler, but Sam Cassell may just unlock his ability to fly! Filming will start in the park next week and hopefully it'll be up and completed within 2 weeks time :D
Hmmm what else is new? My good friend Lester at work is moving to Perth so the lab is never going to be the same again. We just did some AWESOME pranks on my boss Simon last week too LOL
What we did was made a note saying "To the owner of this vehicle, As I have opened my car door it swung open into yours causing damage to the door of my car. Since both of our cars were involved in the incident, it is only fair that we split the cost for repairs. To discuss payment please call me on (then I put my mobile number). Thanks, -Paul"
So when he went out to lunch, he found the note under his windscreen wiper and straight away called Lester to ask if he did it, of course he acted shocked like "What note??" oh man it was so funny..
When he came back to work he called my mobile from the office and I was like "Gday mate this is Paul Speaking" in a totally different voice. And then he goes, whats this note you left on my windscreen? and I'm like "oh so YOU'RE the owner of the silver car.." and went on to say how he owed me half the cost because his car was just as much at fault as mine, trying to be as obnoxious as I possibly could. I kept saying things like "Oh, cmon be fair mate.." He started to get angry and said "No, look mate you've lost the plot, if I come up and kick your car I don't ask you to pay half if I damage my shoes" At that point I think he heard me and Lester laughing and caught on to it being a prank :)))
We still acted like we didn't know what he was talking about but he came up and dialed my mobile while he was standing right next to us and heard the ringtone hahaha I was covering it in my pocket with my hand to block the noise but eventually it was too loud :o))
Anyway thats all form me, check out the new video if you like, I am planning to do some more soon too, I've got a whole bunch of episodes planned ;)
This one has 10 differences in it that I have edited into the pic on the right, see if you can spot them all! :D
You may need to click on it to get the full sized image to see them, some are small differences :)
I like these types of games myself! there's an arcade game where you have to do them within a time limit that was really cool too.
Anyway if you enjoy this I made a bunch of them over on the forum, check em out if ya like! I find them relaxing, except when I make the image I already know where all the differences are :( kinda takes the fun out of it hahaha
here's the rest of em, and answers if ya can't find em or just wanna check if u were right:
I'm quitting pokies! far out, today they gave me the shits to the maxxxxxxxxxxx I was playing this dumbass machine and it wouldn't give me the feature AT ALL! I kept feeding notes into the dirty bastard and it wouldn't come up.. I won $400+ the other day but this machine today really rubbed me the wrong way. I am quitting!!!!!!!!! :))))
I saw this other dude today too, he got 5 trains on the link in the middle line and came up with mostly 8's and 9's he only got the 'minor' jackpot! I would have thought 5 trains you're a shoe-in to get amajor jackpot (which was up to $6K+) or at least the 2nd top prize which was around $600. If I was that guy I'd be spewing, seriously..
A few days earlier I saw someone playing the pyramids machine on $2 hits and on the feature he got 5 PYRAMIDS! paid out HARD! He got $2400 for that alone, so I'm guessing he'd have gotten close to 3 grand on the spins all together.
Anyway, I'm done with all this crap. While I'm still in front after my big few wins I'm going to call it a day, no more pokies! :D
This offseason I've been doing a lot of thinking about head to head comparisons of which players are better. Malone Vs Stockton, Hakeem Vs Barkley, Nique vs Drexler.
There's one I'm going to look at right now and that is Larry Bird Vs Magic Johnson. These two guys helped define the NBA up until the point that Michael Jordan became The Man.
So which of the two was better?? Well, lets take a look at the stats!
Both players were awesome, here's what they did:
Magic: 19.5ppg, 11.2apg, 7.2rpg, 1.9stl, 52%fg
Bird: 24.3ppg, 6.3apg, 10.0rpg, 1.7stl, 49%fg
So overall pretty even there, with Bird having an edge in pts and rebs, and Magic having the edge in assists and slight edge in steals and fg%
Both guys won 3 NBA MVP awards. Magic has the edge with NBA titles (Magic won 5, Bird won 3).
It is very difficult to split these two players as they played different styles. One the playmaker, and one the hard nosed scorer/rebounder. Both guys were clutch shooters and were successful at what they did.
If I had to choose though, I would say Magic was slightly better, because of how flashy and unpredictable he was with the ball. He made the game exciting while winning many NBA titles!
People talk about how well rounded Chris Paul is as a rookie, well consider this, Magic Johnson in his rookie season averaged 18.3 points, 10.5 rebounds and 9.4 assists throughout the playoffs as a rookie and went on to win the title and get the Finals MVP award.
Both players were special! But Magic gets my pick! :D
I still can't believe it really. Yesterday was a huge day for my beloved family portraits. They made it into Melbourne's MX newspaper with a huge double page spread of the pictures. And then, later at night they were also shown on The AFL footy show with the host Sam Newman laughing at them too! :) And if that wasn't enough, the pics made it into the Herald Sun newspaper today with a big full page of various AFL family portrait images :o)
If anyone's interested in seeing them here's some scans some of my mates in Melbourne did for me :)
The MX newspaper spread:
(they put the link to my blog site as well! wooooot) :)
and the Herald Sun paper here too:
So to celebrate I've made a bunch of new pics.. here's a couple of my favourite ones from the new lot:
The Trevor Marmalade family:
And the Akermanis family portrait:
Thanks to everyone for the complements and kind words I've been receiving on the pics! If you made it to my site based on the newspaper or tv show thing please drop me a line in the comments section or somethin it would be cool to hear from you! :) -THUMBBOY
Now, I'll admit I'm not a huge AFL footy fan, but these guys pull the skitzest faces of all! A few of my forum buddies are into AFL and asked me to do some pics for them so I made a whole thread of AFL family portraits :)
Check em out if you need a good laugh. Even if you don't know the players there's some funny lookin heads amongst them!
Well anyways thats what I've been keeping myself occupied with other than causing mishief in the deli and in the lab :D
Anyone got anymore restaurants for me to add to the list yet? man I love you people that view my blogs, even though you don't talk to me I can feel the joy in your hearts. Thank you all for being my FRIENDS! :D
Ok, I am becoming a fat bastard but who cares. I've given up on my dreams to make it to the NBA so might as well enjoy myself! :D
If anyone reading this is either from Sydney or going to visit Sydney some day, take notes of these places because they are all worth trying!
Here it is, the Top 10 Thumbboy eateries! :))))
1. Sussex Centre Foodcourt at Chinatown
Nothing beats Sussex Centre for quality and price. Happy Chef chicken laksa is too cool for school, and opposite that is a place that does the meanest Chicken Katsu Curry of ALL TIME! Both dishes can be had for about $7 or $8 each!!! This place is my favourite place to eat of all! A nice combo to get is the chicken katsu curry and this other place sells these crumbed potato balls with either curry or cheese filling. Buy a couple of those and let them soak in the curry sauce and it is super nice! :D
2. I'm Angus
This is the first runner up for good reason. I'm Angus has great atmosphere right on Darling Harbour, the food is awesome. If you go there you have to order the Giant BBQ Pork Ribs! they cost around $23 but they are well worth it, the thing is so huge it often overhangs the plate. Super MEATY and comes with heaps of big potato wedges!
3. New Harmony Chinese Restaurant @ Greenacre
Great little place with super nice fooooooood! They have this salt and pepper calamari/prawns that is lightly fried and has a superb taste to it, just a little crispy and has a hint of garlic and pepper to it. They also do a great sang choy bow there too, which is a nice meat/veg filling wrapped in a lettuce leaf, definitely worth trying as well! Price is ok, not too expensive but could add up if you are getting a big banquet for lots of people.
4. Sushi Train @ George Street Cinema Complex
The food is great there, I'm not into the raw fish ones but they do a really nice teriyaki chicken sushi there. $2.50 per plate which sounds cheap but be careful because it adds up pretty quickly! :) good to sneak in to the cinemas but the plastic container is really crinkly and makes a lot of noise so eat them during the commercials :)))
5. Beyti Kebab @ Smart Street Fairfield, opposite Neeta City
Beyti Kebab is really good. Probably my favourite place to get kebabs from! They do the normal shaved meat kebabs but they also do the chicken shish roll with is excellent, try that if you go there. You may have to wait 5-10 mins while they cook it but it's worth it! :D
6. 'The Best Merrylands Thai Restaurant' @ Miller St. Merrylands
Really good little out of the way place that has pretty good service and food to match. The mas man nua is my favourite thing on their menu, which is this really tender beef in a mild curry sauce, when you eat it with the rice it tastes great. They also have a really rad thai green curry, which is nice and a little spicy too :D
7. Lidcombe RSL Club - They have Great STEAKS!!!!!
Okay, this place is the best kept secret of all! The steaks at this place are SOOOOOOO NICE! always really tender and with great flavour. When you have it with the gravy and chips it nearly makes your eyes water with happiness that fills you with joy! And it is so cheap too! only like less than 10 bucks and you're very full by the end. They have a really nice fried icecream too. I haven't tried much on their menu because I can't bring myself to order anything but their amazing steaks! MUST GO AND TRY IT!!!!!!!!
The food here is GREAT, especially the chicken empire or iskendar or something like that. We stopped going there a long while back because the service sucks and they usually make you wait forever before the food comes out. If you don't mind the long wait then this place is worth trying, the food is super cool.
9. Korean BBQ Restaurant @ George St in the City
Now, I don't know the exact name of this place but if it is on the 2nd level of this building near the Delifrance on George Street. The food is really nice, I started going there about 6 mths back and have been again many times already. The bbq beef and the chicken bulgogi are both cool, I really like the little mini bowls of stuff they bring out, like kimchi and stuff those are really cool :) Prices are surprisingly cheap too! I always expect it to cost about $60+ but the Bill usually only shows around $38 or $40 for the two of us (me and my wife), so good food + great price and good service, go try it! :)
10. Star City - All you can eat Buffet
Nice wide selection of hot and cold foods. Always looks really clean and well laid out full of foods. There probably isn't one thing on there that is a must-try, but as far as all-you-can-eat places go this one would have to be amongst the better ones I've been to. The desserts are really really good. One long big row of them it's good to go with someone else and go halves on them all :D Mounties all you can eat (at a different Club) used to be a really good all you can eat as well but haven't been there for ages, so Star City wins and rounds out my top ten! :)
Anyway thats my list, if you've got any foods in Sydney that you think are worth trying please leave a reply of the place so I can go check it out and maybe even add it to my top 10 list :))))))))))
I been a lazy ass for quite a while now but decided a quiet sunday is as good a time as any to make a new blog post for my millions of fans out there ;)
I made a bunch of new NBA family portrait pics today, they've been really popular on the net. Big Thanks to scamboogah and sham for showing my work to people on their sites too! :)
Anyways here's the new ones I made today by request:
Alonzo Mourning:
Jason Terry:
Jason Williams:
Erick Dampier:
Josh Howard:
Anyways if you enjoyed these you may wanna check out the rest of them in the forum where I started posting them. There's around 20+ pages of them... yes I AM the most bored person on the planet ;) The first time people see them they usually crack up which is a good feeling :)
here's the rest of the pics: http://www.121s.com/viewtopic.php?t=947 If you want to make some requests feel free to drop me a line, I'm always hanging around the forums and will see any requests pretty quickly :D
I consider myself a very rational person, but still I get scared at the thought of ghosts from time to time. It's a bit embarrassing really.. I mean, I've studied evolution and consider myself someone that sees things for what they are and try not to get carried away with any kind of mumbo jumbo. But when it's 2am and I'm about to take a shower, walking through the hallway of my house with all the lights turned off can get a little bit CREEPY!
Fricken hell.. it's too many damn ghost movies I think. My dad would let me watch vampires and ghost movies, werewolf movies from a very young age. I think it may have warped my brain a little.
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Anyway, the only dreams that I have anymore are of me fighting against vampires and demons and crap like that. One time I was in a cave and fighting off vampires. Another time I was in a cruise ship and all the other people on the boat were vampires. This recent dream I had 2 nights ago wasn't a vampire dream though. I dreamt that I was hiking up a mountain with 2 other people, and then suddenly one of them collapsed onto the ground and there was an imprint of hands squeezing in on the person's neck and they couldn't breathe!
I was like f*ck, and tried to help them, but then the other person went down on the ground with the same thing happening to them. As I turned to help that one I felt myself being strangled and wrestled to the ground with nobody to be seen. Then suddenly the strangling hands ceased and the three of us got up a little bit dazed and the three of us took out a long blade from our backpacks and plunged them into our stomachs (yeah, nice dreams now thanks dad!) lol Anyway, it turned out that I came out of this weird posessed state but the other two continued until they'd completely killed themselves. -Skip forward 20 years and I'm now like 40-ish but still kind of young looking right (did I mention my dreams have very cinematic sequences) and anyway, the two people that killed themselves were actually posessed by demons and came back as these two evil dudes. It was supposed to be three evil ones to achieve some crap to awaken the end of the world, but because I lived it didn't work.. :P
Anyway, The other two had become these high-power execs that ran some big firm, and I'd managed to sneak in under cover to try and finish them off before they started doing bad shit. So as I was typing away at my desk in the office in the dream, I got spotted and recognised by them, and they sent their henchmen to grab me, but as they lunged for me, I leant back over this balcony and backflipped down like 50 metres and landed on my feet with cat-like reflexes (somehow I had gained super human powers..)
Well, thats where my alarm went off for work so I don't know how it was supposed to end. I guess if the dream went on I'd have killed everyone and then gangbanged with some e3 models or something like that.
Anyhow, back to the ghosts thing have you ever seen something happen that just made you throw logic out the window and go "f*ck that shit, I'm getting outta here!" Cos one time that happened to me. I was washing my neighbour across the street's car for $10. His name's Carlo. Anyway, the house that he had was bought about 15 years ago, and the previous owner from what I can gather was a single mother that killed herself and the child or something, I'm not sure exactly what happened but I heard there was a death involved somewhere there. Anyway, I was washing the car, and it was a really cloudy day, black skies and thunder. And just as I was finishing up, Carlo's dog stopped frozen and staring at me, then it turned its head to look about a metre or two to my left and started growling. Then it started barking super loud with it's eyes fixed on that one spot. I looked and there was nothing in that plane of view that should have freaked out the dog like that.
Man, I just ran quicker than Forest Gump that day hahahah :D
So, just wondering if anyone else has any kinda stories bout this kind of stuff that they'd like to share. If you do, feel free to hit respond and share your frightening tales! :D
Hey guys check this out, the forum where I talk shit about basketball and post my photoshopped nba pics is holding a soccer tipping competition with $2500US prizemoney.
I'm going to have a crack at it, I'd love to win the $1000 first prize and put that money towards a PS3 *drool* If anyone reads this and enters the comp and wins the big bucks please send me a box of chocolates or somethin.. :P
Here's the link to the comp if you want to have a go:
Brazil is the only team I know the names of the players really.. Ronaldo, Ronaldinho etc. I asked a friend of mine who's going to win and he said Brazil so I guess I'll go with that too hehehe
The Aussie team finally made it in, so the world cup is going to be huge over here. The media will probably give it a lot of coverage for the next few weeks.
Honestly, I think the Aussies don't have much chance of winning it. I heard someone put a $20,000 bet online for Australia to win it. Might as well throw that money in the bin :P
If it wins they get something crazy back like half a million or something but it'll never happen unless all the other teams have a plane crash and then their b-teams have a plane crash as well..
Harry Kewell looks like a prick to me when I see him on tv. Don't know if he really is or not, maybe some soccer fans out there would know. he just looks like a douche to me *shrug*
Grew up on transformers, he-man and thundercats. Went through a weird ninja turtle phase as well. Memorised the lyrics to ice-ice baby and sang it with my friend Charlie at the primary school disco. --> Skip forward about 10-15 yrs and now I'm a married man and wreaking havoc on the internet with my ninjitsu martial arts. I create photoshopped pictures and spend most of my free time on the net chatting in sports forums. I like to make internet friends so please drop by from time to time and be my friend I will be your friend too! :D
If you're into the NBA and wanna add me on msn messenger feel free! my msn address is peter_arena99@hotmail.com
