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Diary entry number one. (12/06/2004) England

Yes, yes I'm still in England. This page probably has no real value to anyone interested in the China part of this whole thing. In fact if anything it's probably just getting in your way to finding all of that stuff. I'm very sorry.

This is more a christening for the new web site and a mark of my travels, and who knows, you might find it interesting.

I woke up today at noon. Which was pretty stupid of me. Sleeping so much just gives me a headache. I don't even really like sleep too much these days. I have this stupid alarm clock that has a huge green button that causes a kind of alarm to go off when you hit it. And because I sleep on a bunk bed I keep it just next to my pillow so I don't have to climb out of bed to hit it when the alarm does go off. But I kept rolling over in my sleep and hitting that stupidly big button and set of the stupidly loud alarm, causing me to wake up a few times. Also somehow (And this is beyond me.) I rolled over enough to set the time on the clock back two hours. Which is quite odd as it is, but this alarm you can't set the time backwards you have to just hit it again and again till the hour is so far forward that it loops. This means that I must have hit it twenty two times that night. Odd.

Anyway, enough clock banter. It's not really relevant. The whole reason for the clock is to wake me up at five in the morning so I can go jogging without feeling like a jogger. Or at least not one of these 'hey look at me!" joggers all kitted out and sweaty that I always want to chase around town but never have the guts to. So I run in the morning when nobody can see me look stupid. The only bad thing about it is that the geese around the lake where I run are aggressive bastards. They form a barricade around the path and chase you if you get too close. Bastards. I get an adrenaline rush every time I see them.

But no, today I woke up seven hours too late for my jogging spree. Oversleeping seven hours? Is that much? I don't quite know how that happened exactly.

Basically Ashley wanted to know if I wanted to go to the city centre today, like I half promised myself I wouldn't the day before, Well, I did. That's what we do in Milton Keynes, we go to the city centre, A collection of shops. WHOOOPEEEE.

We went to the same three shops that we always go to and went home. It's actually more fun then it sounds, it's more of a social thing than pure entertainment. But still, we do it all the time and I never have any money anyway. I just walk with the other two as they buy things, and they tell me that I should get a job. Same thing as we've done every week since the dawn of time. I've forgotten most of it already.

Later, went to a Chinese restaurant with my Dad called the Sam Ip. I love it there, it's great. We go there most weekends. I had a bottle of Saké as normal, which I've been dying for all week. My hay fever is pretty bad right now, and I thought the Saké would clear my head a bit. Which it didn't. but this time I didn't get drunk. According to Ashley I have an annoying habit of getting drunk in restaurants. Last time I just sat there laughing my face off and failing to walk in a straight line on my way to the toilets. The waiters were laughing and everything, it was quite awkward. But no this time I didn't drink enough to get drunk.

Masa had a brief word with me about what I said about him on the site. We're planning on making a amateur kung-fu movie soon.

Anyway the best thing in the day was me and Ashleys semi-joking conversation about getting all of our friends and living in a farm together, possibly in Canada, Where we would all look after a group of animals each. "That's life, my friends." We really should do that. Can I plant carrots? I like carrots.

Life these days is like a mixture of Kenny Everett sketches and Keane songs. It's comfortable, and innocent. It's like having a shower in pitch black sometimes, and standing in your bathroom until you're dry. I'm not quite sure what I mean, I just did that once in a power cut, and it felt peaceful because of my refusal to get uptight and panic. I'm awaiting some opinions from people I don't know or like to send me back into my normal depressing state again. I'm quite happy where I am now, but I'm far from content.

Well, I still enjoy exercise more than anything else in the world. It's just great. I get a buzz. I think that I could just exercise all day and not sleep. Maybe I should one day, just to prove it to myself. I've been getting a lot of people comparing their methods with me, and it just seems silly to me now to compare things like that when we're all pretty much the same, or to give advice when people don't need it.

Have fun, my loves

-4am