Movie Premiere tonight - How to Lose Friends and Alienate People

Movie premiere at Leicester Square again - learnt it from the YellowCapGuy who's always at every premiere imaginable in Leicester Square.



Watch it happen around 6pm GMT at this webcam...

I think all the main people are slated to come, Kirsten Dunst, Simon Pegg and Megan Fox.

Now most people don't believe me, but I've met Kirsten (randomly, not as a celebrity) when I was in university. I literally bumped into her at a college bar and chatted with her for a while. It was amazingly informal, no one was screaming and asking her for autographs or any of that celebrity nonsense. It was all quite chilled out - she told me she was here for a formal with a friend. I finished up with a "good for you, enjoy the rest of your evening".

Then I went outside and madly dialled people I knew in that college to come down to the bar, Kirsten Dunst is here.

No one believed me.

Useless.

I thought it would be rude to snap a picture of her since she clearly wasn't in 'celebrity-mode', so instead I opted for the even ruder route of indiscreetly snapping one. The picture is in my hard disk at home, so maybe I'll get around to uploading it later.

Anyways, so yeah if you're near Leicester Square and want to see them, head on over today. And say hi to YellowCapGuy (you can see him in my pics from the SATC premiere).

Ciao, gotta go off and pretend to do something useful.

Strangely Gross but Engaging Random Activity

I highly recommend the Amazing Flash Spider. Is it a clip? Is it a game? I don't know, but it sure is entertaining.

To the Lady in Front of Me Before Touching Out at Leicester Square Tube

To:
The Lady in Front of Me Before Touching Out at Leicester Square Tube
Leicester Square Tube Station
London

Your railcard is in the wrong way! THE WRONG WAY!

Turn it the other way ROUND! No, no don't flip it! NOOOO that's not going to work!

Who uses a rail card anyway? It's 2008! Use an Oyster card! Here, take mine!

Ok, rail card's in, take the card out and go! GO! The doors are going to close! You can't stop in the middle of the turnstile to adjust your coat!

Aaaaand you're exquisitely stuck.

Why do I always choose the best queue lines?

Practical Advice for the General Public

How is this Wise?

Most Brits can't cook, everyone knows that.

Ok, maybe apart from Gordon Ramsay and the host of celebrity chefs you can find around London. What I mean is if you yonk any Tom, Dick or Harry off the street, chances are they can't cook to save their life.

I'm not saying my culinary skills are any reason for salutations either, but look what I found while browsing in Marks and Sparks:


Less-than-single-serving, already cooked sealed-in-pack white rice. "Just pop bag in microwave oven and cook for 90 seconds!", proclaims the bag.

I never really understood what was it with the UK and cooking rice. Seriously, is it that hard? I've never seen the equivalent of this for pasta, for example. And pasta is like the staple diet of students across the country. Surely if one can cook pasta, one can also cook rice effectively?

At 79p for cooked rice, that's got to be the best business model ever. How is that a Wise Buy, now I ask you.

Faux pas of the day.....or was it?

[when chatting to a colleague about wanting to get a larger home]

Cat: ....So you know, since we have a 2 bedroom, and one of it is kind of a study/bedroom really, and we have one bathroom, we need a larger place because we always have guests over. It's fine usually for me and my husband, but when we have a guest over we're usually always on top of each other all the time.

FreeSpirit: When I have a guest over we're always on top of each other.

All: .....

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Ah, I love FreeSpirit, she's funneh.

A happy man in the morning

Good morning! A happy camper spotted on the way to work. Stopped to take a photo even though I looked like a classic idiotic tourist and was already an hour late to work. Be grateful.